skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm so excited that this is launching - great work Matt!!! - This is one of the features that I wanted YC to have way back in 2007!
Suppose I have a coffee machine. I can weigh it, clean it, measure titration. But is the machine edible? No, because the machine isn't coffee per se.

Similarly, suppose scientists discover a neural-structure (or chemical-interaction, etc) responsible for blueness. I can dissect it, electrocute it, soak it in LSD. But will the scientists experience blueness? No, because the structure isn't qualia per se.

The prevailing ideology is that by studying the mechanical nature of coffee machines, we'll ipso facto understand the biochemistry of the beverage. danielam is arguing that this ideology is probably wrong. This is why the Problem of Qualia is a problem.
The societal problem that men with power feel that it's acceptable to use that power to pressure women to give them what they want sexually.

(And the related problem of bystanders witnessing this behavior and failing to push back hard against it.)
The great freeway cover-up
The last two lectures in the The Georgia Tech Machine Learning course on Udacity cover some basics of Game Theory. Just skip ahead, the game theory part is mostly self-contained.
https://www.udacity.com/course/machine-learning--ud262
The Reinforcement Learning course includes some of the same (exactly the same) game theory content and then adds an additional lecture on further topics in game theory
https://www.udacity.com/course/reinforcement-learning--ud600
Again, skip to the last couple lectures.
I think the point is to use a realistic example
Telegram is a native app: https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift
>My educated guess: lots of downvotes pushing it down, a fact (more cruel perhaps than ironic) consistent with the points Salma Hayek is making in her article.

You cannot downvote a submission, just comments.
> It's hard to believe that Patreon didn't ask for feedback on this model initially.

From their initial blog post announcing this change:

> In preparation for this change, we ran experiments and months and months of research to understand patrons’ potential reactions and we found that many patrons were happy knowing that this change will send more money to creators.

Looks like a somewhat interesting user-testing glitch to me. Perhaps their sample of patrons wasn't representive, or when you sit people down and discuss a new feature 1-1 you can be more convincing than when broadcasting it to the whole world in a blog post.
> People don't sit around just waiting to switch to the model that has more of what they want.

Sure they do. Tons of people do.

There are tons of people that upgrade their iPhone the day the new one comes out not because their old one suddenly broke that day, but because they want new things.

There's an entire side of the industry - leasing - that specifically caters to people that just want to get a new car every few years.

Lots of people will be looking at the new cars with CarPlay and Android Auto and be seriously considering an upgrade.
Just priced a home network setup. Came to £600
I ended up canceling all my $1 donations except for a random one which I gave all the money to, but I know that a lot of people just canceled them.
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Too bad this project does not supply Typescript typings. LINQ works best together with strong typed programming model.
Ah. Never mind. I see now that it requires AD as a prerequisite.
Maybe you should not use anything Made in China, 'a country with lower values of ethic', because anything Made in China you consumed contribute to the economy of the China.

If you continue to use made in China, your criticizing Google setting up an AI lab in China is just hypocrisy.
I don't understand why they had to make the change global. Why didn't they just do this for e.g. patrons paying more than $10 (or whichever amount makes sense)? I support a lot of projects but only the minimum of $1-2 per month/project and suddenly they were all $2-3 (multiplied by 10 projects is a huge tax).
Plus, more bacon!
They are definitely some downsides to the first definition. For instance, the error messages will often be much harder to read. For the second one you might get something straight forward like it expected `[Int]` but the actual type was `Int`. For the first one you will probably get something about not being able to deduce some long constraint for some long type. That might be possible to improve with better tooling, but for now it is a very real downside.

I think that especially for application code (as opposed to library code), it is a mistake to make your type signature far more generic than you need right away, especially because it is usually easy to switch to the more generic type declaration later without changing much existing code.
Perhaps more customers willing to pay for content is what's needed.
I wonder whether this rollback was caused by them actually listening to their users or the huge dip in revenue as people stopped donating.

Well. Either way. This looks like a good thing. Until the VCs start again to pressure for more revenue. Let's see what happens then. Probably higher fees for the creators.
Reminds me of this cable commercial from a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ilMx7k7mso&ab_channel=Extre...
Ah the half dozen products I dream of building if I could just fund my bills a year or two. :-)

(I'm referring to the fact that the founder is really rich from his family's businesses and has self-funded the whole endeavor)
I understand the downsides of extorting specific sites to pay more or be artificially throttled. That is an unambiguous case of NN violation and the kind of thing (per original comment) I'm in favor of prohibiting.

But NN advocates (as best I can tell) want it to go further, and prohibit

A) the other end voluntarily subsidizing my end on the condition that the funds be used for pipes that they (having partially paid for) have privileged access to.

How is that any worse than the paying for a bigger chunk of the ISP's pipes? And it seems economically equivalent to:

B) A content provider P subsidizing a mobile data network's increased capacity on the condition that P's transmissions not count toward customers' limits.

(I know B drives many people mad as a NN violation, while other advocates are like, "nah, cell data is okay.")

Furthermore, B only seems to differ in degree from:

C) An ISP spending customer money to interface with content provider P's system for replicating P's content within the ISP's network [1] so that access to P's content is faster an less expensive -- instead of spending that same money to make the network faster for all customers and all remote servers.

(Case C is like B, but where the "subsidy" is the expense of making Open Connect-like systems work.)

And yet, everyone seems fine with C.

If it seems like I'm nitpicking, let me step back and look at the big picture: NN looks like a bundle of good ideas ("don't artificially throttle specific sites"), married to a bunch of economically dubious hate for (the equivalent of) toll roads and desire that there be no downsides to higher usage -- the classic motte-and-bailey[2].

[1] For example, Netflix's Open Connect: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

[2] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey
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As everyone on the internet eagerly pointed out the moment this was announced, you can get a best-of-both-worlds solution by simply prorating the second month.

Nothing actually eliminates piracy issues; it's easy to discreetly mirror an RSS feed, for example. You're ultimately relying on the honesty of the vast majority of your patrons, a strategy which has worked out for Patreon creators very well thus far.
No, they’re not truly common carriers. Cable companies are exempt from leasing access to their networks to third parties. Telcos on the other hand have to lease such access.
They don’t need bitcoin for the first stream, just for the second. Besides, there is plenty of excess capital floating around in china anyways, they don’t need many initial investment from the outside.
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What does NODE_ENV=production do?
The cynical view:

"We took a calculated risk, announcing the set of changes, and seeing what the fallout would be. The fallout exceeded the threshold we set, so we're now going to issue the apology we had prepared in case that situation was reached."
Is the performance ok? I'd imagine it would be slow as heck
I told my boss, while I enjoyed working for the company, I was unhappy living in San Francisco and I needed a change of scenery. I had a ticket to visit Vietnam (in 2 weeks) and I wouldn't come back to the office again.

Because he was happy with my services and I was a crucial part of the engineering team, he let me work remotely full-time w2 while I traveled around the world.
my thought as well, the only thing I saw that looked like AI, was mention of social sentiment. That could be interesting to see if people are talking about a coin more, although to be useful I think you would need to know a bit more about what they are saying.
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The people of Zimbabwe and Venezuela appear to disagree with your sentiment that national currencies aren't risky.

Your notion that crypto fans can't separate economy from politics doesn't seem right. Re-read the Bitcoin genesis block. Bitcoin began because of bullshit by bankers and barristers. Politics is the reason for Bitcoins existence.
I subscribed to the print Nautilus magazine and was supposed to receive my first copy 1.5 months ago. Something is up.

Me - Oct 28:

> have yet to receive my first issue of Nautilus after signing up for Prime. When can I expect it?

Nautilus - Oct 30:

> Your first issue in our next shipment, which should be mailed out in early November. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks for subcribing!

Me - Dec 2:

> I never received my first issue this month. Is it possible that it is still on the way?

Nautilus - Dec 5:

> We're sorry for the wait, but we are working on our Sept/Oct issue shipment (the digital version is already available on Prime if you'd like to start reading it now). Thanks for your patience.
Also, you rarely see people fretting over the low percentage of males going for primary education jobs. In many ways these jobs are just as or more important than computer programming, but nobody cares that it has such a lopsided gender ratio.

Personally, I don't even care about it, but it makes me pause to consider why I have to be so concerned about the lack of women in CS. Am I being an asshole and trying to shove people into a career they have no interest in?
I guess that each market, each country has a different dynamic. For example, here in Brazil, there has always been a good % of women in IT and software. But there was one thing: 99.995% of jobs were ERP development or Novell Netware. I always liked low-level software and systems development, but I kept doing that as a hobby with very occasional consulting in systems development from 1988 to 2005.

Most of the few hobbyists were men as well, some even became lawyers to make a living, so scarce was the work in this area, even for the best. Now that non-ERP software development is the high-paid job and ERP development is drying up because big boys e.g. SAP are eating into the local market, everybody wants a piece of the action.

So I don't feel too bad about gender imbalance in this particular branch. Nobody is preventing anyone from buying an Arduino and/or publish apps on App Store.
Especially Patreon. Patreon more or less takes people's money in exchange for warm fuzzy feelings. If they piss off their users, the users get less warm fuzzy feelings, and they'll stop buying.
> I have a feeling that people who lost a lot of supporters won't see a 100% recovery.

That's probably not a bad thing overall. I'm sure people that stopped pledging money during this period will get an email, and have a chance to undo the action. That said, there's quite a few people getting a couple bucks a month from me that I don't really have any reason to support anymore, but haven't taken the time to clean out. That's not an efficient market. If I had stopped pledging to some of them because of this (I didn't as I didn't see a problem with this move), I wouldn't feel compelled to pledge again, and that's a good thing, as right now they are only getting money from me because of my laziness.

I'm not talking about people that I still want to support on principle or because I think they do cool stuff even if I'm not consuming it. Those people by definition are worth my money, so I would likely sign back up.
Looks like there are more format options here: https://archive.org/details/1512.06808v1
Hey now, we usually beat Mississippi
>"Before we start, Objective-C is a runtime-oriented language, which means that all of the links between your methods and variables and classes are deferred to the last moment possible to when your app is actually running, ..."

I had not heard the term "runtime-oriented language" before. Is this really just another term for "supports reflection"? If not what would be other examples of "runtime-oriented" languages?
If you ask the user base if they are OK with a price increase you are going to get a big NO every time.
FWIW I'm working on a bash-compatible shell:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/

If nothing else, I have thousands of lines of my own shell scripts that I don't care to move to a different shell syntax that's not obviously better :)

I'm designing a new shell language which bash can be auto-converted to. This is a lot of work and the plans might change, but the beginnings of it are here:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/02/05.html

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/02/06.html
It’s ok. I definitely believe the situation can’t stay the same, and eventually talk and periodic but temporary crackdowns will have to instead become sustained action.

Maybe that is happening now (I still reserve judgement). I get what they did rural coal heating (but I’m sure there are plenty of cold villagers who didn’t get enough subsidies to use gas or electricity). It is definitely helps the air this season, though the real test will be January and February, which were actually regressions in 2017 vs. 2016.
This is probably too late for a lot of creators, so hopefully Patreon feels the pain of this boneheaded decision for a long time to come.

Several of the people and projects I sponsor have moved to alternative services, and I followed them. In the future, if a competing service is offered I will favor it over Patreon.
Looks great! How do I get the code?
Users who were upset with the change need to reckon with the fact that Patreon isn't profitable and that it's likely that it's impossible for them to ever become profitable with their 5% business model (Patreon is based in San Francisco and has over 100 employees, do the math).
I wonder if this will have a substantial impact on Star Citizen's release or not. For a non-product, it generates an enormous amount of profit.
I have no idea why you were being down-voted, and I wonder how many of the down-voters are actually mathematicians. If they were responding to your tone they need to know that it's incredibly mild compared with what one could say.

I upvoted you, but clearly didn't undo all the downvotes.
Also here: http://web.stonehill.edu/compsci/History_Math/math-read.htm
In fact, I think this must be the original source.
Which physical border search has been ruled unconstitutional?
It's not his fault that the school makes assumptions about the lifestyle that he has chosen for his children. I don't plan on giving my children cell phones, either, and would home school sooner than I would be strong armed by the state into buying a device with limitless potential for evil. I don't think children are prepared to own them, even with internet blocks children end up being constantly bombarded (or seeking out) pornography on school issued laptops, smartphones, or any other internet enabled device. I practice what I preach, and have a phone that is only capable of making phone calls because I believe that constant internet access is a detriment to my concentration and my well being.
I am proud of being the bulwark my children need to grow up to be well adjusted adults, and I'm not going to let some administrators think they're the bosses because they were appointed by some bureaucracy that I had no say in whatsoever, or be "ashamed" because some stranger on the Internet says I should be.
IIRC, submission flags act like downvotes before reaching the threshold where the entry is killed, so this is essentially a distinction without a difference.
Please don't post unsubstantive rants to HN. I'm sure most of us agree with you but one still has to bring thoughtful comments, not howls, into the discussion.

If you can't or don't want to do that, please just don't post until you can and do.
She didn't really have any friends who were girls when she was small. She was just interested in that stuff. Additionally, I have a three year old daughter who is very not interested in dolls and princesses. You would think if it was a matter of socialization, then her little sister would be a prime candidate to be socialized into those preferences. Her little sister is much more interested in building puzzles than playing with dolls. It's actually astounding how much kids preferences seem to materialize on their own. They are these little people, and we think of them as being blank slates, but they are actually not blank slates at all.
Yes, currently the “company” pays once to the origin provider. Under the repeal, the “company” could end up paying every carrier between their gear and their customer. This despite the fact that the customer paid for “unlimited” internet already.

Imagine having a delivery component to a business. Currently, the company supposedly pays taxes to pay for the roads. Now imagine cities using the plate readers at every major intersection to levy additional tolls for every segment of the road network used by their delivery vehicles.

Now imagine cities granted cheap rights of way for the roads owned by the public to Comcast. And now Comcast is collecting a rent of their own choosing from every delivery truck that drives past a plate reader. And that’s what repealing Net Neutrality will do.
Because it costs money to read the research that costs money to produce... How is this controversial?
This design makes it simple to prevent double spending. You just check that the transaction inputs are in the set of unspent transactions (UTXOs).
I'm not sure why that requires cynacism. It is a business, after all. I would rather them do this than blunder along blindly with policies that might cause them to fail entirely, and adversely affect all those that rely on they far more than this did.
Sure, but it's permissioned. Not everyone can join and mine.
I think I might try this over the next few weeks. No one says you have to do it all in one day. Do one layer a night before bed and it'll be seasoned in a week.
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If one uses Google's capture, then most likely that capture already has enough data on you, so it doesn't ask anything.
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They have 18 people and do custom work on every truck? Beating Tesla to market may be moot if you can only build a dozen of them a year.
Anything "controversial" (even when something like this really shouldn't be thought of that way) gets flagged/pushed down the rankings extremely quickly, especially if it doesn't have a strong tech connection so it's reasonably justifiable to consider it "off topic".

HN is great for a narrow set of topics and types of articles, but anything outside that set usually either doesn't do well here in the first place, or gets forced down even if it does.
Lodge also makes a carbon steel skillet that I cannot recommend enough. In my opinion there is no noticeable difference in performance and a lot lighter. My favorite pan.
I wonder why the examples do not use arrow functions. That'd make them more readable IMHO.
Quickly browsing the meta tags, it's a Wordpress site, likely running on a tiny bit of hardware (possibly not even multiple servers). Those are easy to flatten.
I use a stiff bristle brush without soap. I just run hot water into the pan and then go to work, scrubbing the bottom and the sides of the pan until clean. I towel dry the pan and then set it on the stove top overnite before putting it away. Two sizes of pan and a dutch oven all receive the same treatment. I rarely use my expensive alloy pots and pans any more.
That's exactly my point. The fear of the future causes behavioral changes now, not the actual future, which hasn't happened yet and cannot affect your current self.
Is the app only available in the States? I'm in the UK and when I click the download link on my iPhone I get this: https://imgur.com/zHytq4u (url: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mirror-emoji-keyboard/id1199...)

Maybe clarify that, or open it up to the rest of us :)
At mine, it's at the back of the store near the bathrooms. =(

There's never anyone there and you generally wait several minutes after you've hit the pager on the card reader.
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All of firebase's APIs are encrypted.

Firebase hosting also serves content over HTTPS and redirect all http requests to https.
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This visualization is broken. I can’t see the moon.
FWIW I'm working on a bash-compatible shell:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/

If nothing else, I have thousands of lines of my own shell scripts that I don't care to move to a different shell syntax that's not obviously better :)

There are lots of posts on the blog about it, but here is an example:

"OSH Runs Real Shell Programs" - http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/07/02.html

Another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15916470

However one thing is that it's not yet a good interactive shell. It's mainly treating bash as a programming language. However I think that is a good foundation for an interactive shell. Some details here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/7c3f9f/osh_02_...
Shocking you community's members with a sudden change - no matter the size - is almost always seen as hostile and drives members away.

I recommend the talk[1] Joe Peacock of fark.com gave about the time they deployed a redesign unannounced and made their infamous "You'll get over it." post in the thread full of confused and angry members.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnVeysllPDI
It sounds like they explained the asynchronous collection to the patrons without also explaining the implications for fees?
So there's no advantage other than getting through broken middleboxes?
It was assigned by RIPE to "Vasilyev Ivan Ivanovich, 8 Pionerskaya st., office 10, Nekrasovka, Khabarovsk region Russia".

ALFA TELECOM s.r.o., in the Czech Republic seem to have acted as sponsoring LIR for the allocation.

RIPE rules require that the sponsoring LIR submit documents to them showing the legal standing of the organisation that will use the resources. So in theory that should have happened here.
Sure. Firebase runs on top of Google Cloud. So if you say use Firebase Functions, that's a "Google Cloud Service" in the diagram [1] in the article. Similarly, Firestore is also a "Google Cloud Service", so all requests to it (from say your Firebase Function) are encrypted as well.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but disclaimer: not on Firebase).

[1] https://cloud.google.com/images/security/whitepaper-transit-...
The sad part is that Patreon has to backtrack and apologize so aggressively. I read the email the other day while sitting on the toilet and thought nothing of it. Was there any actual blowback or just a couple of loud mouths on Twitter that can't afford to rub a few pennies together? You can't make everyone happy, especially in the quest to make money.