skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or it just seems like that to you because these are the changes that you've viscerally experienced instead of just reading about.

Someone born in 1900, looking back at their life in 1975, would be like "When I was born, heavier-than-air flight was impossible. Now people routinely fly across oceans at 600 mph, you can travel faster than the speed of sound for admittedly a lot of money, and we've gone to the motherfuckin' moon. Vast swathes of work has been automated, to the point where we essentially ended an entire industry (personal servants). Automobiles went from being curiosities to something that even poor people have and use every day. We split the atom, we brought women into the workforce, we invented electronic computers, we invented radar, we turned radio from a science project to TVs that every family have. We invented antibiotics and childhood mortality fell by some enormous percentage."

"You're very impressed that computers went from 'pretty good at playing chess' to 'extremely good at playing chess' in just 20 years. Maybe you're the one who's missing the forest for the trees."
The acid brought out in cooking doesn’t just decrease the nutrients, it allows some nutrients to be absorbed easier, so it’s a bit more complex.
What does zero downtime mean?

No interruptions of services?

Or just that people could still log in all the time?
Q: On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the easiest, how difficult was it to write to the WebExtensions APIs?
In general, it was a 2 or 3. WebExtensions APIs are simple enough and clear for extensions that just add a new button, sidebar, or other unique feature to Firefox. However, there are some undocumented behaviors on edge cases, and they might be closely tied to a specific Firefox release you’re working on. If you’re writing extensions that change Firefox’s behavior, you will need to dig into those undocumented behaviors.

Sounds like the same pitfalls as writing a XUL extension...
Guam gets their news from a site that looks like this
Hi there! I'd love some feedback on this redesign of Guam's local news website redesign!

Full Portfolio Piece: https://medium.com/@alyssa_mcgillvery/how-guam-is-getting-their-news-775e5f8b4076

Interactive Redesigned Homepage: https://cs1300-res.herokuapp.com/
License compliance is not verified in closed source stuff, period.

When was the last time some user of Windows verified whether Microsoft Windows contains some piece of code that Microsoft shouldn't be redistributing?
Problem with Gigafactory Leads to Global Shortage of Cylindrical Batteries
I love it. Make it a platform and call it something hip like vicarious.ly

I could totally get into that.
>Arbitration is legal because of freedom of contract.

Indentured servitude is just contracting. Do you think it should be legal too?
Fair enough (and thanks for dropping that knowledge bomb!), but it seems like they could choose whatever seems like the strongest configuration at the time. It seems like any opening book would make a pretty huge difference.
Are we assuming everyone knows that Org-mode is an Emacs package?
Only 30-45 minutes? That seems like a good day.

I have a 4 mile commute South (from South Congress/Barton Springs straight up South Congress) on my bike. I easily can beat traffic often times. Even without traffic it takes just a few minutes longer (lights, speed limits).
It went briefly to about $19.7k on GDAX... It is currently $17.6k
Well you have to be better than Chrome, otherwise why switch? I am a diehard Firefox user, but if all you care for is speed then there is no reason to switch until Firefox surpasses Chrome. There are transition costs.

For me one killer feature Firefox has is container tabs.
Is there a way to toggle the tab bar when the Tree Style Tab sidebar is toggled?
In Australia I get charged separate CC fees when booking flight tickets, concert tickets, many filling stations, some food / hospitality businesses, etc. Surprised that's not normal in the US.
Safari? Really dude?
> People who work outside don’t get skin cancer.

That's a bit of a blasé thing to say... I have lost direct family members through melanoma due to their work requiring them to be in the sun all day, and clearly many other people here have too. I can't fathom how you would form such an opinion.
Ask HN: If net neutrality gets repealed, what could this mean for Bitcoin?
Pretty sure they mean people could login again after the switch.

I can't imagine what the purpose would be of capturing session data for each logged in user and transferring that over... I wouldn't even expect that of a fortune 500 company moving platforms.

If that is what they did, it warrants a post on its own.
A few months ago my car got covered in white paint from the garage of the apartment I live in. I had it detailed, which they agreed to pay for right away. They credited my account for the cost of the detail, then added it back as a rent charge when I refused to sign away my right to sue over the incident (well, the contract said basically they weren’t liable for anything that happened at all around that time on the premises. also the detailing didn’t remove the paint). They required me to pay back the money in order to make my rent payment the next month, or i would have been charged 10% of the rent + detailing charge as a fee. So yeah, avoid services like renting an apartment and you’ll be all set. Good luck!
What would boost uptake is for just one of
the major distros, especially Ubuntu, to release a spin/variant based off either.
An offshore account in Belize (forgive me Belizeans, I'm not sure about your taxes, your name just came to my mind) is useful because an USD transfer from an anonymous Belize company can be used to buy a yacht or mansion in USA.

Bitcoin is currently (mostly) unrestricted because it has many use cases, it's unclear which are the main ones, and there's a lot of posturing about the legitimate use cases. However, in the long run, if it becomes clear that the other use cases fail and only this one remains, then this one will be (made) useless as well - a single act of law requiring all legitimate sellers to verify the identity (and tax status) of every transaction in bitcoin above USD $1000 (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_transaction_report for cash), and it's suddenly not worth to store billions in it. Sure, the small scale people will use it to stash their wealth, but they don't have that much wealth to begin with, and that usecase won't justify the immense market cap associated with a $19000 BTC price.
"In science and engineering, some of the greatest discoveries seem so simple that you say to yourself, I could have thought of that. The discoverer is entitled to reply, why didn't you?" --- http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
Missed it. In my mind I think I lumped it in with divisibility, which is related but not quite the same thing.
I thought it might since it had a reasonable amount of up votes when I saw it, and immediately after reading the article returning to and refreshing hn it had disappeared...

I found it again only by doing a search many pages deep.
Maybe the reason the whole world isn't getting behind this is because the proponents of such theories have yet to provide a single shred of evidence that this is happening. At least it's interesting science fiction, but it's quite delusional to think people will get behind this considering the sorry state of "AI" at the moment. When the rest of us look at "AI" we don't see a single shred of intelligence because it doesn't exist. How about at least a prototype? But no, "AI" proponents don't even have that. And please, hold your arguments about how self driving cars are intelligent; self driving does not equal intelligence. Anyway, there are much better articles and arguments than I can make on the subject, many of which show up here on hn quite frequently. I personally will definitely take this "merge" seriously once we have even a hint of proof that we can create intelligence at all, let alone intelligence greater than ourselves. Currently there is zero proof anyone has ever created anything intelligent in the sense that the word "intelligent" is generally applied to humans. The technology is about as far along as technology to teleport star trek style: not at all.
You mean, "I wish people tested the websites they build across multiple browsers" - right?
No no no, you just don't understand! Solving the issue of "how do we handle mid-month sign-ups for a service that bills monthly" is a nigh impossible problem that requires at least 40 to 50 Stanford- or MIT-trained engineers.
Have you actually gotten rich? As in, have you realized any of your gains; have you diversified your (new) assets so that at least a significant part of them is in something that's not speculative and can't go down much even if you're mistaken?

For example, silicon valley is full of people that were once multi-multi-millionaires on paper by holding stock that had an extremely high price, but didn't manage to get to sell it until the valuation collapsed. There's much more of them than the actual multi-multi-millionaires.
Thanks for feedback. We will add the itemized v standard deduction minimizer soon. We thought we’d let user direct but I agree we should take the min and change that.

Re tax brackets, we are looking to add state tax soon so it is much easier not to hardcore the running totals. The computation time is insignificant but code is cleaner with our current method, IMO.
I do like how cryptocurrencies are causing us to have some existential conversations about money and value and what they actually mean.

A key learning I took away from Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century was that you really shouldn't be holding on to more currency than you need to. That it's good to have useful tangible assets like real estate.
You're completely incorrect:

https://wiki.cancer.org.au/skincancerstats/Settings:_Workpla...

It is estimated that around 200 melanomas and 34,000 non-melanoma skin cancers per year are caused by occupational exposures in Australia.[1]

http://www.cancer.org.au/content/pdf/PreventingCancer/BeSuns...

The 2006 Report on indicators for occupational disease
highlights there was an increase in skin cancer claims per million
employees/persons over a six-year period to 2004. The report
says that given the long latency period associated with exposure
and the onset of skin cancer, it is also likely that compensation
claims greatly understate the real incidence of occupational
skin cancer6
.
It's going to take a lot to convince me, at 56 and very aware of sun damage to the skin of my friends who spend more time in the sun than I do, that "healthy tan" isn't an oxymoron.
Absolutely. It's a good sampling of the spectrum of financial sense to look at /r/bitcoin.

So many people there saying "Hold! Hold! Don't be scared, even if we see a $7,000 correction tomorrow! Hold! Just keep holding!"

through to people criticizing Warren Buffet as a "know nothing", "washed up old man"...

to the conspiracy theory, "The only way the financial big guys can make the price tank is if they can [shock, horror] scare you into selling! [more shock] hold! hold! hold!"

And the occasional, rare bead of sanity, "Please pay your capital gains tax".
Stanford has done wonders getting is to almost parity between male and female. Now, CS was already oversubscribed, so I’m not sure how much shaping is going on, but many departments don’t have a shortage of female applicants if they are competitive.

I do wish there was more research on how the gender gap arose in the first place, e.g. why that drop occurred in the mid/late 80s.
Thanks. I was so used to seeing hairbrained that I assumed it was the correct spelling.
Like the other poster, these are also examples of super-linear progress, so I'm not sure what you think this proves.

For my point, the super-linear progress in information tech is all that's needed to argue in favour of the intelligence explosion.
Why would a fact mentioned in high school be considered automatically more reliable than a documentary? Both are secondary or tertiary sources.

To be ready for college, it's more important to have critical thinking skills, to understand that not everything you heard in high school is true.
Canola Oil Consumption in Mice Linked to Decrease in Working Memory
Pretty sure that this guy, an undergraduate student in Virginia, has nothing to do with Brigham Young University projects from the 1970's-80's. So, byu.io != byu.edu
> As I write this, Bitcoin just past $16,000 in value. I would bet any amount of money that on December 7, 2018, the price of Bitcoin will be below that value.

You don't have to "would bet", you can short it on some exchanges and soon you'll be able to short using futures. Bears should put their money where their mouth is. Bulls sure are doing it.
It's the power business, where every purchase is planned 30 years in advance. To cut 12000 jobs there is just gross mismanagement.
Engineering licensing boards are a good idea, as long as they have zero legal powers. Let customers decide which is a reasonable engineering standard. Don't give officious twits the ability to control anyones ability to earn a living as an engineer.
My Quadriplegic Husband and Me
Spotify was spun out of private torrent network libraries that still exist independant of spotify. Youtube still gets a lot of uploads from private torrenters trying to generate ad revenue. Just because they are percieved as legal and convienient they get more views, but ultimately where did the content come from?

https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files...
Risks of Astronomical Future Suffering
I'm proud to have turned down a economically-maximizing offer with a margin on principle of not signing non-competes. I understand that I was lucky to have the luxury to be able to say no and not everyone is able to do so on a different circumstance, but I believe if you have the option of taking a lower offer without a non-compete you have the moral obligation to your profession to push back and resist, and let them know that a non-compete is morally repellent.
Trust no one: Scholar risked all to document Islamic State
to what?
As someone who has never used Org-mode, and only very briefly dabbled in Emacs during college, I actually think that's a pretty safe assumption around these parts. No?
Do you have a source for no income taxes? The sources I found state clearly that they have one. [1]

[1]: https://www.ecovis.com/focus-china/individual-income-tax-iit...
I dunno. I mean, there's a camera in your house and you just gave a company a key to your house to deliver products to you via some person you have never met and will likely never meet ever. Like, your paranoia meter should be red-lining.
The funniest part is that it's the rich folk up on the hill who pushed the boulder ;)
80,000 IU is a terrifying number for daily intake. Did you mean 8k and not 80k?
Ask HN: How to do the reverse of collecting payments?
I am looking to give my clients ability to invoice me or request money right from the web site. It seems, however, that all embedded flows are geared towards collecting money. What are my options?
There are large investments in mining hardware (and ongoing electricity costs) that wouldn't be useful without the bubble and would get wasted if the bubble collapses.
Why Walmart Is Changing Its Official Name
If your only response to a reasoned argument is a dubious aphorism, you’ve already lost the discussion. You are literally just arguing from disbelief.
Should Michelson and Morley have been kicked out college because they didn't trust in the existence of luminiferous Ether?

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Ether.html
To be clear, china has the same problem, perhaps even worse despite its reputation of gender diversity. Our big boss when I was working in china made it abundantly clear to us that we had to hire more women, and that there were supply issues from the universities, etc.... Maybe India does better?

Also, I find it weird that while I’ve met many Russian developers, I’ve never met a female Russian developer. That is just anecdata of course, take it with a grain of salt.
White House says warrantless surveillance is fine for a while
I really like the concepts in Probabilistic Robotics by S. Thrun.

It's kind of a more formal approach to robotics, and has some strong ties to ML.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax

https://youtu.be/tVo_wkxH9dU

that hoax is my favorite because the BBC did it. I will let each enjoy the the story and video
How the hell did you manage to get an heirloom sees catalog on the front page!? That's great! I have been getting this catalog for the last few years and have big plans about starting from seed this winter indoors. I finally have garden space but little time to enjoy it.
Big picture time:

1) Do you think in 50 years there will be 150 nation state currencies or mainly a single global one?

2) Do you think the world superpowers (china, russia, US) will refuse to let another superpower's currency become the single global currency?

3) What will the total market cap of this currency be?

4) What is the chance that bitcoin or some derived form in which current holdings are preserved is that currency?

Now put a value on probability or amount for each of these statements. Here's my personal belief for example:

1 x 2 x 3 x 4 = ?

50% x 70% x 30 trillion x 10% = 1.05 trillion
But it's twice as long as saying "ten times."

"The server is an order of magnitude faster than our old one."

"The server is 10 times faster than our old one."

--

More often heard: "The server is an order of magnitude more performant than our legacy server."
I'm under close supervision for vitamin D levels. Previously, I was taking 100,000IU D3 (50k 2x daily). I'm not taking any right now but my next panel is in a few weeks so we'll see if I get back to taking it.

If you're taking little green footballs of oil-based D2, I suggest dry D3. I had much better response.
Lactose intolerant societies generally have cheese and other forms of curd. Also, babies are generally lactose tolerant regardless, losing this tolerance later.
So you must also think you should pay the same car insurance premium as a guy who gets DUI's every couple of years and runs red lights?

People who do not take care of their own bodies burden the system significantly more than people who lead a healthy lifestyle. It does not take a genius (or a clinical study) to figure this out. They simply should pay more for the resources they consume.

As another poster commented, this already works this way with life insurance. Should my life insurance premium be the same as a person who skydives every weekend?

One of the only ways to get people in this country healthier is by exposing their financial burden on the system. When you know you are paying $2000 for the same insurance your healthy next door neighbor gets for $250 - you pretty quickly figure out you're doing something wrong.
According to modern physics, all of us are wave oscillations.
Please explain how this comment was unsubstantive and baity.
I don't think this is the case. I've packaged several things for Guix, and patches are rare. Stuff that has good configuration (e.g. uses GNU make, and thus accepts --prefix) will be fine.
I don't disagree with you seem to have missed the hypothetical situation I was responding to:

> It can’t, so it spends some time recursively improving itself
There's also the fact that an action you trigger now (build unit) doesn't have immediate payout (building takes time). In Chess it can evaluate the current board as is, and it gets immediate feedback on each move.

I'd be interested to see if it can "plan ahead". Maybe a Chess variant where you have to submit your next move before the current player moves, or something like that.
That period did not last. Yes, if you try hard enough and look narrowly enough you can find exceptions to any of these rules, but it holds as a general guideline. If hyperinflation had continued indefinitely, it's probable some other commodity would have supplanted it as a de facto currency.
Two students are the first physics PhD ever in South Dakota.
The updated FAQ explains the fee-per-donation: they're going to start billing donors' cards separately for each donation.
Haha very true. Although I did receive an offer to buy my domain name from a Brigham Young University IT guy. True story! :)
Solving algebra problems IS a core requirement for living in this day and age. It's a key component of financial literacy and those inadequately familiarized with the material suffer greatly from it.
For people to switch en mass, Firefox's features and speed will not help. People have to start feeling problems with Chrome.
Hi! I’m David Aronchick, PM on Kubeflow, I’m happy to answer any questions! I was one of the early PMs on Kubernetes, and we very much want to make this a community project, so please join us in thinking about what’s next!

- GH: https://GitHub.com/Google/Kubeflow

- kubeflow-Discuss: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/kubeflow-discuss

NOTE: The name "flow" does not refer directly to TensorFlow; if anything it's a nod at all the river themes that pop up in the ML community (eg FBLearner Flow)

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubeflow
Forgive me, how will this earn Patreon more profits? Am I doing the math wrong?
You seem to think that a short period of fast technology growth in some areas corresponds to the claim that technology as a whole is improving more-than-linearly.

Compare the y values of the functions y = x vs. y = sqrt(x) over the x values in the interval [0..1]. Or the slopes of the lines.

It's been 42 years since 1975. If technological advance was faster from 1900-1975 than it has been from 1976-2017, or "only as fast," then that's important to understand, and probably more relevant to our immediate future than whether technological growth from 8000 BC to 1900 AD was either by some standard very impressive or slower than growth from 1900-2000.
Bank deposits are federally insured
I was responding to your response to that. Recursive improvement doesn't need to be unbounded, it just needs to supercede us.
"Think about the 2015 Super Bowl. The Seahawks are on the 1-yard line, they’re down by four, there’s 26 seconds left in the game, Pete Carroll has Russell Wilson throw and it’s intercepted. Do you remember what the headlines looked like the next day? “Worst play in Super Bowl history,” “What was he thinking?” “Idiot.” That kind of thing. But imagine it was caught—what do you think the headlines would have looked like then? The outcome was irrelevant to the decision quality."

no that was a pretty bad play choice.
This is a bit like saying you're not going to try OS X because OS 9 was slow and buggy. The code that made your pages stutter is probably not even in the repo anymore.
Man... The author has no idea how any of this works.

Other comments explain it well but damn.
I saw the same thing. It was insane
This is cool technology and all, but I wonder if the people working on it ever stopped to think about the moral and ethical implications of what they were doing.

Although I was initially creeped out by Insecam, I was fascinated with the idea that I could peer into so many different corners of the world just by clicking on a couple of links.

If it sounds creepy, and probably is. Go with your gut on this kind of thing. Then again, maybe it's better to have the tech out in the open.
"Super-human agent on Dota2 1v1"

Good to say they accurately define the situation, not something like "Super-human agent defeating world's best Dota2 player"
Correct! We're currently thinking a lot about orchestration of the various components but for now, our goal is to use the native loose coupling between services available in K8s. So if you wanted Spark for data processing, for example, you could start a service, and the deployment, and feed that into the TF CRD.

Disclosure: I work at Google