skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I like that one. I also like the argument about the brightness gradient in the white wall being super accurate. But these sorts of arguments aren't considered strong by critics.

Now imagine that we found a half-burned-down painter's workshop in the countryside, with a bunch of artifacts. Or a woodcut or drawing of a painter's workshop with these devices in use. Those would be very convincing to a critic. But we don't have those.
Not the OP but I just happened to click on this (request for highly intelligent people to share experiences) in my RSS feed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16007404 and couldn't really see a reason why it would be flagged, besides maybe being in slightly bad taste and attracting r/iamverysmart types.

I also noticed something strange with a thread comment I made a few days ago. It had a link to a Youtube video that some might find politically incorrect (people talking about IQ being a predictor of success and homogenous societies being less violent). It was immediately downvoted several times but spawned a large discussion thread. All my replies within the thread seemed to be purely upvoted, but were in line with what I was saying in my original comment. After a while (several hours), the original comment made it to positive points as well.

That made me think that there was some (possibly politically motivated) band of users that were scanning for certain things to downvote, and the video I linked or perhaps the other content of my comment met their qualifications. They immediately hit my parent comment (and overlooked my other replies), driving it to the bottom of the page, but it eventually managed to crawl back on its own merit.

I'm probably just paranoid, though this thread increases my suspicions.
Not a great analogy.

We all know that HTML is an opt-in language, in that user-agents are designed to render the tags that they support and ignore the ones they don't.

My user-agents do not support ads at all.
Whatever happened to “programming to think”, is it just “thinking to program” now?
This was interesting. I realized while reading that not once in history class did I read or discuss the Articles of Confederation or Constitution - or the writings of any of the founders - in any great detail, which seems like a huge curriculum gap in hindsight.

Anyway, this little convo is a plume of frustration with how technology seems to be encouraging polarization. I'm not sure I agree with the idea that the spread of outrage enabling platforms has been a conscious decision, in that some individual guided the development of our society in that direction intentionally or had the power to slow or redirect that development. I think it's more a typical expression of human social dynamics.

I do agree that the internet and platforms like Twitter and Facebook enable outrage, that's a fairly common view now. What I'd like to see are models that detail exactly how this process plays out; if anyone is a researcher or model builder this could be a fertile field of potential research.
This is the subject of the article.

Last I checked, current market rates are about $30 for a typical transaction.

To happen, transactions must be included in a fixed size block in the global block chain. Currently, there is not enough room per block, so space is auctioned off on a per byte basis. The size of a transaction is not related to the number of bitcoins involved, but the number of "utxo" involved. Essentially, if Alice sends you 1BTC and Bob sends you 1BTC, you do not simply have 2BTC, you have 2 utxo's each worth 1BTC. If you want to send more than 1.5BTC in a single transaction, you will need to include both utxo's, which will increase the size and therefore the fee. In contrast, if Carol sent you 2BTC in a single transaction, you can then send 1.5BTC at the same cost as 1BTC because only 1 utxo is involved.

In a world with sufficeint space in a block, you could still need fees because the miners might decide to leave empty space instead of includeing free-rider transactions. This does not actually save them money, but if they control a non-trivial amount of the hashrate, it could encourage people to increase there fees in order to decrease their confirmation time (especially if all the major miners do this).
I was a B student in a Russian school from 1 to 8th grade and started in an American High School in 1999. If you factored in ungodly amount of mandatory summer break reading everyone had to do in Russian schools, you'd probably end up with 3 times the material covered in a span of a year compared to American schools. This basically allowed me to just coast through all 4 years of High School with all kinds of stupid awards and a GPA of 4.0. The same amount of effort would've probably turned me into a dropout back in Russia. Kids here don't learn anything and I think lack of quality material both in and outside of school is to blame. Ironically, I hear they don't learn much in Russian schools either these days.
Agreed. Another limitation to contemporary people being remembered far into the future is it's currently hard to believably claim coming back from the dead or turning water into wine. And it's easy to find out if a person plagiarized an essay or harassed a co-worker. Thus the era of legendary heros may be largely over.
Bitcoin is a victim of its own success. Double-whammy: the exchange rate is now higher and people are executing more transactions. If your transaction wants to compete with the limited block space for each transaction, you have to increase your fee (or your transaction will be queued until activity is low enough that no one else's fees outbid yours).

The community is considering several approaches to mitigate the problem and the different approaches have exposed the distinct underlying motivations of miners, merchants, exchanges and customers/users.
Sorry, I was trying to give the GP more context for my initial comment.

As I said in my initial comment, the authors state that WPaxos provides per-object linearizability, which implies that it provides (to use your term, "global"-)linearizability.
No one said he invented them.
> In the world of science, that's nothing.

The Apple App Store came out in June 2008, 9 years ago. From the fart buttons topping the charts, entire companies and business models have been found and Bitcoin is still stuck. They're not making progress.
So, basically all ad networks like zeropark, popads, popcash, propeller ads, will soon disappear?
> They take hostage Gmail accounts.

> I don't know if all the good they have done outweighs the bad.

Well, I wouldn't call Google outright sinister. That's just what happens when capitalism goes unchecked. Too bad that even the EU, even the mothership of regulations Germany, didn't have the guts to put some red lines (and consumer rights!) towards Google.
>The stated goal is to block especially obnoxious ads, of the kind adsense doesn't do.

Either way you think the relation goes probably depends on your opinion of Google, but I would take this as thinking backwards.

Google has lots of interest in preventing Adsense from being blocked as part of some broad-stroke policy, so everything they do as part of their adblocking policy has that in mind - wherever users prefer the Chrome native policy, Google wins. Whatever criteria gets picked for the adblocker is going to fit Adsense pretty well, or else Google loses.

If Adsense, and the ad revenue model, weren't deciding factors in introducing these partial blockers in the first place, Google wouldn't be taking the steps to implement one.
What part of sending a GET request to view a web page corresponds to ordering chocolate bar?
Such mindlessly disgusting and impudent move from politicians, lobbists and media corps. How long will people keep this democracy and freedom of speech illusion. The Emperor has no clothes and we aren't allowed to point that out, not with our finger and not with 'a href' tag anymore.
I wouldn't say utterly failed. The tools never completely replaced programmers, but they allowed programmers to be replaced in certain domains.

The obvious example is Excel. Imagine if there were no Excel. How many more programmers would every enterprise needed to hire just to reach the current level of productivity. Every bank, hedge fund, and financial institution would have hired a programmer for every one or two analysts. They hire a few now, but nowhere near the level that would have been necessary without Excel.

Another example is LabVIEW. The interface is basically a board where you arrange your flowchart boxes (virtual instruments in LabVIEW terminology), configure them through the menus, and connect them together with wires to express the flow of data. The mechanical/electrical/... engineer herself designs the programs that read data from sensors, save them, analyze them, and send appropriate instruction to actuators based on them [1]. I have seen entire assembly lines running on LabVIEW. To the best of my knowledge, the entire program was conceived without any input from software engineers. Had LabVIEW not existed, many many more software engineers would have had to be hired by laboratories, manufacturing facilities, and research institutes.

Not every attempt for eliminating programmers has been successful, but to call all of them snake oil-driven is incorrect. The field of software engineering is young and has not stabilized yet. I would expect that in the coming decades, increasingly more products would be created to replace specific uses of software development. The demand for programmers in those segments would fall. The question is, would the demand in new ventures and markets increase enough to completely neutralize losing those segments? That remains to be seen—with a field as young and rapidly-evolving as software engineering, historical trends do not tell much about the future.

[1] I should perhaps add that I am a mechanical engineer who also codes.
Wow. I'm one of today's lucky 10,000. Thanks!
Yeah, fair enough, I guess I just disagree with critics there because chromatic aberration is a very specific defect, and not just "random colors gone wrong". Art critics will know more than me on this, though, so they must have their reasons.

Hopefully we will find a workshop somewhere with a bunch of photographic equipment and crack this puzzle.
In the world of computer science, 10 years is something like 3.3x the span of time between Altavista and Google. It's the span of time between the original spinning-hard-disk iPod and the iPhone 4S. It's approximately the time it took for AWS to go from zero to where it is today.
The old Google Toolbar had a warning with big red font saying “THIS IS NOT YOUR USUAL YADA TADA”. It explained the page rank feature sends what domains you visit to Google for checking their pagerank, and how Google processed that specific information.

It gave you the choice to enable or disable, in equally sized buttons.

Today, you instal Chrome and are immediately asked to sign in without being aware this “syncs” your browsing history to Google.
You can put on rose-colored glasses (or AR goggles) when you walk into a store, too. I don't really see a contradiction.
I’ve read and recommend to many of my developer friends over the years. I wish I’d read it 30 years ago. Applying the knowledge in this article can easily earn you an extra $100K over your career.
Mildly Interesting RTS looks pretty good to be honest. Have you downloaded it? It's surprisingly a lot of fun. Solid review score too.

Oh and totally give A Dark Room a shot. You may find it pretty okay.

PS: I'm totally gonna frame this comment thread. I'm big fan Braid and The Witness. You? Not so much :-)
Your glasses (or AR goggles) when you walk into the store would correspond to the HTML renderer here.
What the ...

Okay, that's crazy talk. That's the role that clubs have always had.

"Exercise classes often function just as much like a church as they do like a gym: They gather people into a community, and give them a ritual to perform..."

We can say the same thing about square dancing in the mid-20th century. Or going to your local bar. Or quilting bee. Or .. you get the idea.

"“I think I’ve figured out what [people are] really drawn to, and that’s the community aspect of it"

That's almost exactly what my salsa teacher said is the reason that people take salsa lessons.

Only, without the "better, harder, faster, and more" emphasis.
A GET request is not a request to view a web page, it is a request to receive the page. It is up the recipient to determine if and how the page should be rendered.
OP was taking about passports on the way in to country (schengen had passport checks on the way out, but UK doesn't)

However Heathrow T5 (and T2 I believe) have face scanners on departure, for domestic travellers. Passengers on a flight from Heathrow to Glasgow don't need a passport or any other form of photo ID (it's a domestic flight), but they mingle with international transiting passengers who have not immigrated into the UK (say flying Delhi to Heathrow to New York)

To ensure passengers can't bypass immigration by swapping boarding cards, they take photos of domestic passengers on entry to security (either post immigration for Int-domestic transit, or post check in for domestic-domeatic). This is then compared with the passenger actually boarding the flight at the gate, and it's mostly automated (with manual override).
Loved it. Thanks for sharing. Survivorship bias is a problem imho.
Bitcoin isn't a Ponzi Scheme, but there are some Ponzi Schemes built around it...the big one being Bitfinex and their worthless Tether currency. And if/when those schemes collapse they could greatly destroy the (market) value of Bitcoin.
Ask HN: What build tool(s) do you use for static/ marketing websites?
I'm not a lawyer, but it just seems like the biggest online ad peddler of the world blocking ads of exclusively it's competitors in his preinstalled browser on the most widely used mobile platform in the world is a recipe for a blockbuster anti-trust sanction.
The problem is that green energy subsidies are paid usually per kWh regardless of the need. They are often way more than the energy price.

So even if your energy price is negative 2cents/kWh, and your subsidy is 10c/kWh then it makes sense to still run despite it causing near carnage on the grid.

And all these contracts are very long terms (20-25 years), so no easy way to change terms.
That's easy enough. Make something every day, 6 days a week. Don't make anything polished or clever, just something quick and dirty. I don't know what it is you want to create specifically; if you want to crite, just commit to cranking out a page a day; if you want to make video games, get comfortable with Unity or some adequate game engine and make some toy; if you like operating systems start building little things in assembler.

You won't necessarily accumulate components that can all be assembled into a larger whole, and some days you'll just be frustrated or demoralized (which is why the requirements are set low). But this is an excellent habit to have in place to recognize ideas that you like.

A lot of times people focus on what they want to be (an artist, a movie director, a billionaire) and see the products as the means to that end. But generally success like this can't be planned, it's the product of obsession. Obsession is something you can cultivate through practice, but you can't plan it in advance, any more than you can design a specific tree to look a certain way in a garden. So you plant seeds and then wait for something interesting to sprout.
Why would their competitiveness in biotech be a worry? I can see worrying about some of the unsavory parts (getting DNA samples from heretofore innocent people, under false pretense, one might add) but the leg up on better analytics is not a bad thing.

Never the less, the tech for most of sample processing is from Thermo-Fischer.
Exactly: you can put on AR goggles and have them draw opaque rectangles over all the ads in the store, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Well, you might if part of your arrangement with the people in your pool is that you'll mine only when it's profitable to do so.
Thanks for the info. I stand corrected.
BGPMon
>The instructor stress them to get a job.

This is really good advice. Additionally I'd say don't bet the farm. Some times the best you can do is be that rock/stepping stone for your kin to build a legacy with.
Yes today "Communism" and "capitalism" are not mutually exclusive. I was referring of the general understanding of communisn as an economic and political system. Indeed I believe-correct me if I'm wrong- China gradually buried the economic side in the early eighties with Deng Xioping. Capitalism can be a hard place when you are left behind but is the best system coupled with democracy and freedom of speech. My idea of human capitalism is to share profits with those left behind. Imagine if all businesses shared their profits. Utopic? I don't think so. We just need to push for it. I myself was homeless, rough sleeping before getting back on track. I now prepare to launch a start-up with the idea of sharing profits with those left behind. Radically lifting homeless families out of the streets in India. That what I call human capitalism
Math in the US needs a revamp. Kids get the notion early on that math is some sort of ominous monster ready to devour their time and grades. It has a bad rap, and this keeps people from getting into it early on.

What we need is someone to "popularize" math in a genuine and non-patronizing way. Say what you will about Bill Nye/Neil DeGrasse Tyson/Carl Sagan/Issac Assimov, but they've been incredibly successful at introducing advanced scientific concepts to a wide audience.

Math needs these same kinds of "popularizers". Not only to introduce interesting topics, but to validate and remove the stigma surrounding math in the US.
That “border guard” is an immigration agent, all they care about is if you’re legally allowed in the country. The customs agents are usually after you clear immigration, and they only care if you’re in possession of something illegal.
Re: [PATCH] increase block size limit
Satoshi
October 04, 2010, 07:48:40 PM

It can be phased in, like:

if (blocknumber > 115000)
maxblocksize = largerlimit

It can start being in versions way ahead, so by the time
it reaches that block number and goes into effect, the
older versions that don't have it are already obsolete.

When we're near the cutoff block number, I can put an
alert to old versions to make sure they know they have to
upgrade.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.msg15366#msg153...
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I didn't draw the same conclusion from the article regarding whether the author thought, or the article implies, that "rolling the dice" is the primary element of success. The author emphasizes the sorts of elements you highlighted - formulating a long term and reasonable plan; demonstrable talent; grit and perseverance - not as necessary (or sufficient) conditions to success but rather necessary conditions to have a chance at success.

As you know more than most, game development isn't a linear path from ideation to release, and good games from smart people who worked hard on them often find little success. You can increase your chance at success with experience and talent, but games are an entertainment medium and sometimes your creation just doesn't resonate - or increasingly rise above the noise of the platform marketplaces - with enough people to be a sustainable career.

I've worked at AAA studios and am now at an independent game developer. I've sometimes thought of doing something even smaller, an indie effort akin to the author's or something of the scope of what you did with Braid. I found this article aspirational and affirming, validating the idea of taking a chance on something that is meaningful to you despite the (long in the case of the mobile app store) odds.
I never got the exact reason.

Scams..? Most retailers don't do it.
Yes, of course. The German energy grid is one of the most incredibly (over) subsidized grid in the world. Incredibly low wholesale costs, incredibly high retail costs. The difference is the enormous amount of subsidies paid to green energy producers.

If there weren't subsides in play everyone would be going bankrupt.
Who makes the rules about how long these records can be stored and so on? Do citizens have a say? I feel I’d be ok with this as long as the data was used once for a quick criminal check or whatever and then discarded. Of course, we need strong verification that the data is really deleted.
Wow I did not know that. I must confess that I have been only superficially involved with BTC, but I've gotta say, what you've just said:

Bitcoin transaction fees have skyrocketed. They are around $50 per transaction now.

combined with BTC price continuing to go up, this just spells bubble to me.

One user up above said: "If your transaction wants to compete with the limited block space for each transaction, you have to increase your fee"

My question is: is there any end in sight where transaction costs might come down? Because otherwise BTC is totally unusable as a currency.

I think folks who are really invested in BTC (like the Winklewoss brothers who have holdings above a bil value (in essence, illiquid, as holdings of that amount tend to be) might work to make transactions low using whatever new technology thereby making it a viable monetary platform, otherwise I don't see this thing as not failing spectacularly sometime in the future.
Change address would also take some space
Think about it another way - the market cap of bitcoin is now $274,103,408,466. A 10E-11 fee ratio is outstanding and all you need to get it down to. Bitcoin has become more of a large balance settlement layer and smaller channels are emerging on top of it.
As an aside, isn't it silly to describe the same thing as both a base (below) class and super (above). I think I'd prefer parent/child.

I've also seen inconsistency in various inheritance diagrams; sometimes the arrow points to the child, sometimes to the parent.
I don't think the analogy stands. For example: If I walk into a shoe store I won't see ads for pain meds. I might see ads for special sales or maybe for a sibling store which doesn't sell shoes, but is under the same company. These kind of ads can bypass or are not even blocked by today's adblockers because they usually don't have to be served by an ad-network. And that's perfectly fine. The problem comes when ads are not relevant to your context and are shoved into your face. I would definitely complain if ads are shoved into my face in real life (please don't misunderstand, I am aware there are ads everywhere, assume the scenario where you walk into a shoe store or an apple store). It would also be easy to argue that showing irrelevant ads in your store is distracting and even bad for business.
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Thanks. Could you point me in the direction of some reading material?

That has the look of a rule of thumb, which as a civil engineer that ended up in IT, sounds a bit familiar.
If you Eurostar out from schengen to the UK, you pass through schengen exit check, then a few yards later Uk entry check.

I assume that Americans get exit stamps at the first check.
Most countries that stamp passports give entry and exit stamps, whether you have a visa or not. More and more counties rely on computers to keep track of you though - Israel used to stamp you at Tel Aviv, now you get a piece of paper that you return on exit (you still et stamped at Erez when going in/out of Gaza). In 2015 Australia stamped when you use the manual system, but not the automatic system. I don't recall if the US stamped my passport last time on the way in, I don't think Canada did. Hong Kong stopped in 2013 I think.

It's a shame, I like stamps. Plenty of them at Lagos last month though - 2 stamps on the way in, 2 on the way out, as well as the full page visa.