skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We seem to be talking about turning the terminal into a full blown editor (when we already have editors...) to satisfy a rather limited use case of 'oops, guess I have to run that again."

That seems like an incredibly common use case to me. It's common for a command to have a lot more output than I originally expected, and when it happens, I usually want to examine that output in detail. It would be great to retroactively be able to open captured output in a text editor, dump it to a file, pipe it to another tool, or collapse it.

I don't really want to edit the output in the terminal, but it would be great to be able to say "oops, do X with stdout from that last command, and do Y with stderr".
Is it meant to be that the last listings are 28 days old?
I'm with you about half way. Sure, if we produce more power than we consume and we aren't using carbon-emitting power sources then there's no reason to dial this back so long as miners are willing to pay for the power and infrastructure to keep it going.

The problem of course is that China is still getting most of its power from fossil fuels (the rosy numbers they often promote usually end with "by 2050"). Given that the environmental effects of bitcoin's fossil fuel usage may not be borne by the people buying/mining bitcoin, it doesn't make sense to expect the market to price it in.

Edit: I mention China because that's where a lot of bitcoin is mined due to cheap electricity.
Deep learning.

In fact, I want to start the year with a MOOC or a video course on deep learning. I went over the current offerings, and am hesitating between Andrew Ng's new Deep Learning course at Coursera in 5 parts, and self-studying through the cs231n Stanford course (it has all the videos, assignments etc. posted). Can anyone help me decide between the two, or offer something else? I'm looking for mathematical understanding as well as hands-on experience, and am not afraid of math.
Thanks for the tldr!

> 3. Proposes that a [software] system's interaction with the outside world is a larger problem than the system itself [i.e. UX tougher than code]

I hate this mindset that tries to divorce UX and code. If you're making a CRUD app, don't think of it as a tiny pure nugget of reusable API goodness surrounded by an unfortunate layer of messy UI that has to deal with the real world. The app IS that messy UI code. The rest is just a database schema. Don't try to abstract away your job.

Of course UX and code are different, but I think they're inseparable and anyone doing either should have a firm grasp of the other.
True, but we don't have much trouble with it though. We don't directly call syscalls but use our own wrappers that take care of this for us.
> The Venezuelan mistake was putting all their economic eggs in the oil basket.

Tell that to all the small businesses that were nationalized just because the communist regime felt like it, and then forced all small business owners into poverty and hunger.
Who do you think the author is trying to persuade and where did you detect disrespect?
MoreJPEG.com: Gee, this image really needs more compression artifacts
I find this thread quite hilarious.

With PoW + self-adjusting difficulty, bitcoin is quite intentionally designed to encourage ever-higher energy consumption to "secure the blockchain". Yet HN is trying to "well actually"-away the fact that bitcoin is an energy hog.
This is why the Echo Dot has aux out and Bluetooth built-in for external speakers.
Beneath Another Sky: a historian’s global take on migration and identity
The authors have built a start-up based on these ideas:

http://memcpu.com/

They provide their SAT solver as a service that you can try.

A related paper I recommend in this context is NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality by Scott Aaronson:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf
The number of things that one needs to do right approaches infinity, so a trust system is ultimately the only way that accomplishes anything.

That doesn't mean that the most onerous and dangerous things can't be checked, but in general systems that run on trust run more efficiently.
Receiving 500 Internal Server Error
Luckily I don't have friends, so I don't have to worry about constant notifications.
> Silicon Valley loves to think of itself as a bastion of rationality. But like every group and every ideological movement and every person, it has a set of core beliefs taken on faith and not on evidence.

The biggest problem I've found with people that purport to be rationalists (and I include myself) is the propensity to believe they have enough inputs to make definitive statements, when in truth they are just discounting the unknown unknowns. When dealing with people, even on the individual level but it's much worse in groups, the complex motivations and constraints make every statement along the lines of "a rational person would do X" sound hopelessly naive.

That some core beliefs are not examined or are believed to be the truth without evidence does not surprise me, even if it still makes me sad.
If you really wanted this plan to work, why would you publicize it?

Is your enemy the SV companies that delete hate speech, or the people you use hate speech to attack?
So if you were to write a review of a product you really liked, you would...throw in extra paragraphs about when other phones adopted some of the product's features?
The total volume of my excrement over the course of my lifetime is scarce. Yet it is worthless to investors. Scarcity alone does not make something valuable.
As far as I can see it, we basically agree on everything discussed so far, except for the idea that it might be worth to try and fix some historical shortcomings.

While that's a worthwhile discussion to have and I see the difficulties in maintaining compatibility (see my original post), I'd say that arguing either way goes somewhat against the premise of this thread.
> And even if you run a source-based distro like Gentoo, editing those sources by hand can still be quite intimidating.

Not so much hassle.

Way 1:

1. put your patch to /etc/portage/patches/sys-apps/coreutils/my-ls.patch

2. emerge coreutils

Way 2:

1. ebuild /usr/portage/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.28-r1.ebuild prepare

2. edit sources in /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/coreutils

3. ebuild /usr/portage/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.28-r1.ebuild merge

Really nice to work this way if you debug compiled software a lot.
Yes, we're mostly remote.
Most of the links were submitted by different users, that are not just created to submit the links and that submitted other stuff and comments. It looks normal for a popular general interest site.

Perhaps the mods have more data, and can double check it, but this looks pretty normal for me.
> We present a novel approach for real-time facial reenactment of a monocular target video sequence (e.g., Youtube video). The source sequence is also a monocular video stream, captured live with a commodity webcam.

Wow, this is impressive. Thank you for sharing! If that made its way on Hacker News on its own already, it surely deserved it.

For those who didn't go to the link, there's a short video demonstrating the technology -- one example shown is a YouTube video of George W. Bush being modified real-time by a webcam stream reenacting the facial expressions of the source user superimposed over the target.
If by "good" you mean "useful." Both are still non-native-UX piles of mess and would be far better and less resource-intensive if implemented as native apps.
Does the transaction price go up when fewer people mine?
The right way to deal with this is by adding more flights. United operates a seasonal sfo-muc during the summer. And the timings for this flight are quite different than the LH flight, giving travelers quite a bit of flexibility.
Fun fact: there's a single train that serves the already completed train station under the not completed BER airport -- the tunnels were designed with the assumption of some air flow coming from the trains. Now that single empty run ensures the tunnels don't mold.
Not for the discerning users.

McDonalds didn't put Peter Luger out of business.
The only "sound" behind generated on a text-based medium like this is the voice in your head. Send your inner voice my regards.

I'll take your petty accusations over being a moral supremacist every single time, especially when the evidence comes out that people like you used neural networl=ks, ad networks, side channel favors, and other means of cyber phrenology to algorithmically suppress the people you supposedly care about.

I look forward to your decades of denying involvement. I'll be there for that, too.
I think the question was more "why invite Google into your home before Amazon" - as in the companies, not the devices
There is more work done right now to prevent dominant intermediaries like Amazon from increasingly abusing their position by removing the need to use their platform at all and move it to a p2p blockchain instead.

So, those small online stores didn't used to all be on Amazon or Ebay. Which means those platforms must be providing something that the store proprietors think is worth losing some of their independence over.

What is that "something", and what does the blockchain do to provide it that just getting an account with a payment processor doesn't do?
I didn't say it in my above post, no, but I'll say it in this one: Electron is bad.

Specifically, it allows lazy dev teams to deploy lazy "apps."
>The NSA tells Intel (and AMD) to put it in there or else.

Exactly. And this is where mass surveillance comes in to play: having dirt on anyone and being able to use it as leverage.

ie. Intel is forced to put it in there or the NSA will 'leak' how they <insert illegal business practice Intel engaged in that will put them out of business if published.>
I agree with this. The argument I have heard a million times is that technical people can't understand non-technical people's (whatever "non-technical" mean, partitioning people as either technical/hard or non-technical/soft is dumb) perspectives. Therefore, for a product to succeed, it needs to be designed by non-technical people. But the assumption is wrong and letting non-technical people design products more often than not just leads to badly designed products.
Guy forgot to switch back to his newer (by only about two weeks) account before replying to you, too.
KPart: A Hybrid Cache Partitioning-Sharing Technique for Commodity Multicores [pdf]
Thank you! About a super minimal web CMS... I wouldn't build one. We can discuss more over email if you'd like, so we don't highjack the thread: peldi@balsamiq.com
My initial instinct is not very important, but we will wait and see.

There have been many, many examples of people achieving significant improvements on many classes of NP-complete problems, and more come out every year, of course the more general your improvement the better. Modern SAT solvers with learning are such an improvement.

The claim of "exponential" seems very dodgy to me, they are running over a fixed set of benchmarks, it's hard to measure an exponential improvement over such a set.

I will wait until I see this peer reviewed, after a brief skim read I am a little worried about how big the circuits they are making are.

EDIT: they mostly compare against 3 specially crafted classes of random problems. Noone really cares about random problems, and it looks to me like they made random problems their system would be particularly good at dealing with. That sets off alarm bells for me.
> (that the author feels he helped invent)

agreed... article felt like maximum ego-stroking, minimal thinking.

to my mind, the conversation about where "the web" went off the rails ends with the dopamine-hook. I worked with a team building game experiences 5 years ago, it was all we could think about. good examples of it were everything we wanted to emulate. it was disgusting...

mea culpa.

for the children growing up today, whose parents put their baby photos on blast all day... there will be a reckoning.

i wonder what that will look like.
I also feel like this particular article fails to address the intrapersonal aspects of 'soft skills' and mostly considers the interpersonal issues.
Ok, so does impersonation allow you to be spammed? It seems like impersonation is non-consequential, or at least hard to measure. Especially on such an ephemeral platform.
So that explains the bizarre email I got from Yobit today:

Bitcoin Segweet in 18 hrs!

Dear YoBit Users!

Bitcoin Segweet [B2X] balances (1:1 btc) will be added in 18 hrs (27 dec)

Timer: https://yobit.net/en/b2x/timer/

Sincerely yours,
Team of Yobit.Net

It's a junk exchange anyway, but now seems like a good time to reiterate my question from the other day, which started an interesting discussions but not actually an answer: who exactly is buying into these junk forks, when there are high-quality altcoins on the market?
Please cite examples of calls for "replacing" hard skills with soft. That's far more a straw man than the one you "dispense with" — conveniently distracting from your own, I might add. I'm hearing a call for recognizing their value as complementary and essential in their own, independent ways. Soft skills do not supplant hard skills, but either is worth less without the other.

If you're arguing against that, then you're part of the problem.

It's also what we call a "false dilemma" to suggest that your proffered interpretations for this "trend" are the only interpretations for it.
This keeps popping up every few months for several years, and seems like BS. Here's an example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8652475

And here's Scott Aaronson's debunking:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2212

If these guys could really solve NP complete problems, they should have some amazing concrete results to show at this point, which they don't.
New York City considers adding a fee to Uber rides
Actually, the death of simple display advertising is a bigger blow to the independent web than net neutrality. Many developer and server bills get paid that way.

Comcast and Cox can afford to set up pay-walls and service packages to create content and fill the void. Little guys like me will probably go find a new hobby like camping or brewing craft beer.

The irony is the worst ads actually get the lowest rates; disruptive formats are highly toxic to a brand marketer (why should I put my name on something that pisses the consumer off)... most high end brand players want to get native ad placements or "editorial looking" ad formats. Surfers have learned to ignore people "yelling louder".
I didn't read the GP ascribing morality into that statement. They're simply saying that the energy consumption is a market effect -- if it wasn't in the miner's self-interest to mine, they wouldn't.
> The only real problem is if the price of electricity doesn’t actually cover the cost of the externalities of generating it.

We don't even know all the externalities of generating it, let alone adding all of them to the price.

E.g, nuclear waste and depleting fossil fuels are two well-known externalities which we currently consciously choose to ignore. Climate change is an externality which until about half of a century ago wasn't known at all.
They are indeed, but this pattern solved a few issues I had.

First one was to get rid of always thinking about a commit message.

Second, I can use git blame and understand the order of things I've inserted w/o headaches. Past information gets agglutinated and I needed granularity specially during long work hours

https://imgur.com/a/cfvFh

Which time stamp is better in your opinion?

Also with an eye scan I can see how much I've updated on a single note

* 4a23de5 - Updating 2017-12-05 entry on 23:30:02 (postit, 3 weeks ago)
* ed9e37b - Updating 2017-12-05 entry on 23:26:21 (postit, 3 weeks ago)
* 7692b94 - Updating 2017-12-05 entry on 23:24:57 (postit, 3 weeks ago)
* 816adce - Updating 2017-12-05 entry on 23:24:21 (postit, 3 weeks ago)
* fd29ca3 - Updating 2017-12-05 entry on 23:22:08 (postit, 3 weeks ago)
* b914010 - Updating 2017-12-05 entry on 21:30:44 (postit, 3 weeks ago)
* 63e7aec - Updating 2017-12-05 entry on 20:54:06 (postit, 3 weeks ago)
* 2fabda1 - Updating 2017-12-05 entry on 16:38:32 (postit, 3 weeks ago)
You're not doing it right :)

I kid because I love, but I will say it depends on where you're attempting to do it, how much control you have over the process, whether you are a contractor or government employee, and how much your can convince your leadership of the good parts (these typically require actual risk-taking / change)
That's actually a huge annoyance of mine. There's no stable, cross-platform web API to get raw sockets, and I'm not sure why.
You can do it all in one command: "Alexa tell SkillX to do ActionY".
> The researchers aren’t sure if new moms undergo a hormonal change that leads to this surge of dopamine or if their reaction is influenced by the experience of smelling their own baby, the researchers say.

> “It is possible that childbirth causes hormonal changes that alter the reward circuit in the caudate nucleus, but it is also possible that experience plays a role,” Frasnelli said in a statement.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-smell-of-newbo...
Compare & contrast to "fellow white people".
You 6 days ago:
>I lived in Downtown Hartford until last month, I don't recall many, if any bikes on roads. Then again, I do recall traffic being generally unsafe, I definitely would avoid riding a bike there.
It's certainly vague but that's an uncharitable interpretation. I'd say it's more like not inadvertently offending or demoralizing people, not accidentally starting arguments, and so on.

Mistakes in communication happen easily, so it's good to be skilled enough to avoid them or recover quickly.
It's not perfect, but practically it's still the best option. Of all the candidates for an easy to learn international language, it has by at least an order of magnitude the most speakers and materials. For example, the Esperanto wikipedia is larger than the Arabic one.

I also haven't seen any of the other conlangs demonstrate they can be both as expressive and easy to master.
all the words from scrum:
Standups, sprint, dailies, retrospectives, epics, tasks..
I choose intuition over empathy, but clearly they're both important.
Thank you for the detailed explanation. Those bullets points make sense to me now. Cheers.
One good compromise is to get a Sony Z5 Compact and enable Ultra Stamina mode. Switches off most smartphone features, keeps 20 Mp camera, gets you a week of battery life etc in a compact, waterproof case.

Very cheap second hand now.
We did that without microservices, just dynamically-loaded modules on a monolith base. A custom configuration for each client selected which modules to load at runtime.
Radio waves have been extensively studied for over 100 years, and there have been numerous studies trying to ascertain if they cause health problems in humans or other animals.

"Radiation" is a bit of a scary word, the general public thinks of nuclear radiation. Even though radio waves can be called radiation they cannot cause harm in the same way that UV radiation causes cancer, for example. Radio waves can heat things up, and can even cause burns, but you'd need to do something incredibly stupid like disassemble your microwave, or stand in front of a primary radar dish. By comparison, the word "radiation" is often used to refer to ionizing radiation which can destroy molecules in your body, even at low power.

The battery charging works because the antennas are very efficient at picking up radio waves of a specific frequency, unlike humans, which do not make very good antennas. I am personally skeptical about the power efficiency of wireless battery charging but radio waves are fairly benign to those of us made out of meat.
A lot of people don't do it correctly. They identify 2 things that the company already does and then declare they are completely agile, having changed nothing about the way they do anything.
“All I’m trying to do is grow so that my grandchild can pick an apple off a tree and take a bite out of it and be O.K. That’s where I want to be.”

Well, congratulations. Your competitors are trying to grow as many saleable apples as possible, as cheaply as possible, grandchildren be damned. Most of those regulations come over someone's dead body.
.AppImage?

I think I'll pass on downloading and executing a binary file.
Waze took me through this recently. It's shocking. And abrupt as in turning a corner to drive through hundreds of people in the street. Couldn't see the pavement from all the trash.

A completely different world.
I think discussions like this often devolve into religious wars, but I'll take a shot at it.

If you have a village of a hundred of starving artisans and workers, but no crops because they have no seed corn, you have high demand, but no capital, and so no one gets fed. Consumer demand isn't enough.

To address demand, someone must invest in production. Lets assume that the entire village has earned seed corn by selling their pottery but has no farming land. The villagers can eat the seed corn, so they do. But one day farmer walks into town and offers to give anyone 10x their seed corn in return for it, if they can just wait one growing season.

So now consumption is converted into investment. The farmer must get investment to have production. If the villagers tell him to just farm his land and they'll pay him in pottery when his crops are ready for sale, it won't work.

Now if the farmer has lots of seed corn, but the villagers died of starvation waiting, he's got no customers. He needs demand to make his investment valuable, otherwise it can only feed him, and he'll never get pottery or any other goods from it.

Consumption is the benefit of investment, and it helps drive more investment, but it's not the direct creator of it. Now lets assume the village and the farmer reach equilibrium. He plants enough crops every year to feed all of them, and they make enough goods that it's worthwhile to him to do it. Everyone's standard of living can rise as the farmer more of his excess seed corn every year an reinvests it to farm bigger crops, and the well fed villagers compete to make better goods to earn more food.

Now the King decides to tax farming output at 99%. The farmer can plant enough to feed himself and keep all of it, or plant enough to feed everyone, and only keep the same amount. Obviously he's not going to work 100x as hard for the same benefits as he can working just for himself. So we have demand, and capital, but we've broken the incentive for investing. So the farmer just plants enough for himself, and in the mean-time he sells all that extra seed corn to villagers for goods, akin to a rich son spending his inheritance. By next year the farmer is surviving, but no longer wealthy and the village is starving.

Keynes-iasts always want to focus on the benefits of demand, but it's only part of the story. Friedman-ists want to focus on investment, but again it's only part of the story. Laffer gave incentives a bad name, he was the Elon Musk of economic overpromising, but he was essentially right about their importance.

Our economy functions ok right now even though our corporate tax system is among the worst in the world and makes for substantial impediments to investments. The Republican bill lowers the rate significantly and allows for one time repatriation, but still leaves significant disincentives (and doesn't address progressivity at all).

Our economy would likely function better, productivity and incomes would increase faster, if we eliminated corporate income taxes. But our entire tax system would become less progressive if we didn't also address dividend/capital gains rates when we eliminated them.
One song that samples the shipping forecast (that isn't mentioned in this article) is this Tears For Fears track from the 1980s:

http://youtu.be/FDUk11Z0bkQ

Gives you a good idea of the cadences in the shipping forecast itself. It can be strangely relaxing listening to the shipping forecast on BBC Radio 4.