skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When planning how to utilize my time, I sometimes think in terms of these three categories: make, learn, fun. So:

Make: finish a side project I'm working on. After that, start a new project with a completion time of, say, about four months with the hope that some will become successful or provide unexpected indirect value such as getting to know interesting people etc.

Learn: continually learn stuff so that I cover roughly undergraduate understanding of all of the major branches of science: physics, biology, economics, chemistry, etc. For fun and because it's rewarding and useful to understand the fundamentals of a wide range of fields. Useful because when there's some specialized area of interest, understanding the fundamentals makes it possible to learn about it relatively quickly.

Fun: travel more, maybe try LSD :)

Other than that, get a significant raise and/or start looking for a much better paying job. The job market in my country is extremely favourable for employees right now, so I'm basically wasting a big opportunity out of fear of change. Also, slack less in work (that's the reason I haven't asked for a raise yet).
Perineuronal Nets Are Key for Long-Term Memory Recall
Well, it'll be hard to let you know when that happens.

I can tell you this. We have multiple sources of news. Much more than ever existed before the internet came to our homes. I don't see how the EC can improve on this situation.

"a signal of intent to keep a degree of openness". How about a simple statement "the EC is not well-suited to determine whether fake news is a problem and, if so, how to deal with it". But I guess you'd need an ancient and strong tradition of popular democracy and hard-won constitutionalism to make such statements.
Again, I'll repost what I posted in another thread this morning:

This Segwit2X has almost nothing to do with the original "Segwit2X". They are basically taking what they think is the good parts of all cryptocurrencies, and are putting it into one monstrosity.

- X11 based algorithm from DASH

- 2.5 minute blocktime from litecoin

- 4mb (closer to 8mb with segwit) blocksize from Bitcoin Cash

- difficulty adjustment algorithm from Bitcoin Cash

Plus they are promising some pretty impossible stuff in the "future":

- ZkSnarks from ZCash (which they list on the same line as "anonymous transactions" in some areas, and on a different line in others...)

- Lightning Network from Bitcoin

- Smart contracts from ETH

- Something called "offline codes" which god only knows what it means

Basically it's a shitcoin that is trying to lure people in with impossible promises and just taking what they think is the best thing from every major cryptocurrency and putting it into one disgusting abomination.

Oh, and they chose a loaded name to make sure they'd get some coverage in the "news".

This "Segwit2X" has literally nothing in common with the previous "Segwit2X" from november except for the name. Nothing else is the same. How they got any exchanges to list it under the same name i'll never know...
Last time I tried it, it didn't handle unicode very well. It was a year ago and, when I saved the documents, things like "à" would turn to Chinese characters. Apart from this, I liked it a lot. Now I just use VIM and pandoc for PDFs.
That's called the lottery. A typical lottery winner will be back where they started after a few years.
Love this one. I picked up euclid's elements over the summer and it has been awesome to just pick up a proof when I have minimal down time. great way to redirect my mind.
Yes.

I really am puzzled by articles denigrating men. If I were an alien from another planet I would wonder why men even exist if I were to read all such articles (Yes I know men are only good for reproduction).

Sure there are a lot of bad/evil/despicable men out there as there are a lot of women (you can downvote me, but it doesn't change reality). Let's take a recent example, it is a known fact that Trump doesn't respect women that much; yet the reason he won the presidency is perpetuated by the media as, he won because of the disenchanted 'white men'. Excuse me? 42% of women voted for him, this isn't a trivial percentage like a statistical error. Why isn't there any spotlight on this?

This whole men vs women debate is just utter ridiculous (in most respects); call a spade a spade and don't resort to dog whistle tactics.
In no way did I miss the actual content.
Not entirely true. If you wait for the arbitrage opportunity to occur in the reverse direction, you can rebalance. But you take the risk of waiting days/weeks for a reverse dip opportunity.

Source: I tried to make money arbitraging BTC back in 2015. I made a 2x return, entirely because of inflation, realized I didn't understand anything I was doing and pulled my 8k out. If only I had kept it in :)
Although Teddy Roosevelt was a Democrat, he remains probably the most "manly" example of environmental conservation. The message is not inherently un-tailorable to the hard-working everyman: we've become reluctant to do so under the pretense that one day, he'll magically stop being something marketing departments secretly despise.
> I remember DIA

The IATA code for Denver International Airport is DEN. I originally heard it by DIA and was confused many years ago, so I looked it up. Not a huge deal as most airline folks know both versions, but wanted to share the knowledge in case it was useful.
I know several families (some with teenagers!) who traded their iPhones for dumb phones, reducing usage to much like a phone behaved in 2005; entirely for phone calls that actually matter, and the simplest of brief text messaging. They all have reported it to be a very positive experience.

Alerts, notifications, badges, social media, apps, vibrations, chimes, dings, rings, virtually all of this is generated from entirely inconsequential noise, distraction, and interference. How do you measure the impact on humans of being interrupted all day long by your phone chiming every 5 minutes with a new email, mundane message, social media trash, or nonsensical alert from some app to come fiddle with it and be force fed a few dozen ads in the process? None of this is good for the human mind or psyche.
Let's wait until he's done.
> It boggles the mind why not in a single one of the zombie stories out there nobody bothered to wonder where the zombies get the energy?

From brains. Duh. ;)
fallacies? Hardly, that is like saying I listen to Rush Limbaugh to disprove the fallacies of Rachel Maddow.
Like you said, anyone should have an opinion. I shared my opinion that "they should stop printing out this type of propaganda material disguised as research", and that's my opinion.

When it comes to social stuff like this, I believe "statistical data" is the weapon. Most people don't truly understand statistics so it's easy to fool the general public just by using percentage numbers.

My point was NOT that they should have provided more statistical proof.

Instead it was that they started out with an agenda so the research was flawed from the beginning. Just like how most research funded by cigarette companies to prove that cigarette was OK was flawed from the beginning.

Of course, you can't get away from social agenda when it comes to social science research, but all the real valuable social science research results come from genuine curiosity whereas a lot of bad research results come from a clear goal to convey their existing message.

I just can't imagine how one could have come up with the underlying hypothesis of this paper WITHOUT starting from an agenda. If you disagree with me, please share your thought on why you think there was absolutely no social agenda when these people started their research.
Tim O'Reilly and James Allworth on the Future of Humanity
Israeli tech firms do business with Saudi Arabia. From previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13553478
I'm not sure what you're trying to imply here? Do you doubt their findings? I think everyone (esp us men) should be aware of the effects ̶p̶̶a̶̶t̶̶r̶̶i̶̶a̶̶r̶̶c̶̶h̶̶y̶ social constructs around masculinity can have on your behavior.
Saudi Arabia does not ban Jews from entering SA it's a common myth.

Here is a testimony of a man who wrote "Jewish" under the religion item of the visa application and received his visa and visited

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/my-saudi-sojourn...

Please do not downvote me. I am the only one who provided a source for my claim of who is and is not denied visas.
Thanks. I'm worried about asking for a favor like that from my boss and coming back only to quit. And I'm worried that they'll misunderstand the term "burnout" and it will limit my options for returning one day in the future. What do you think?
The problem with blaming bubbles is that it's not new to social media. I would image it goes as far back as tribal evolution, but I digress.

Currently, if someone like conservative politics, they read conservative newspapers and magazines, watch conservative news, listen to conservative radio and go to conservative websites, because they like it. There are liberal versions of these and also middle-of-the-road versions. Social media is just another way of consuming information that you like.

Another dimension is wether said information is accurate or not. This has also been a historical problem in this country and the world, probably since we, as a species, have been writing stuff down and even before in oral histories.

Information in social media is consumed from friends and acquaintances. People tend to give more authority to the validity of information from friends and acquaintances, again throughout history.

Social media isn't inherently bad for society, I think politics is bad for society and social media is just another way of sharing ideas, good and bad. Again, most of this is nothing new, including the content.

Look up Andrew Jackson's 1828 campaign against his wife:

According to Ann Toplovich, executive director of the Tennessee Historical Society, John Quincy Adams' presidential campaigns targeted Jackson's "passion and lack of self-control" in both 1824 and 1828, "making it central to the argument that he would devastate the integrity of the Republic and its institutions."[6] One newspaper ran an article asking, “‘Ought a convicted adulteress and her paramour husband to be placed in the highest offices of this free and Christian land?’”
I agree, doing it yourself is fun, but if cost is your main concern, then DIY is absolutely not the way to go. For reference, I recently finished relatively simple ESP32 sensor project and while the components by themselves probably cost about £20, I ended up spending about £150 in parts and tools over the whole process. The extra cost was down to breaking parts and ordering replacements, needing basic components such as resistors and breadboards which many will already have in their toolbox and needing to make about 10 different orders + associated shipping costs as I went through each revision of the design.
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There is no way for central bankers to collude and print money without consequences (inflation). Investors can always sell central bank currencies and buy commodities. The reason we're not seeing inflation now is simply that the central banks did it right - they printed an appropriate amount of money, not too much.
Perhaps one might admit that Apple are late to the game with OLED and edge-to-edge displays?
We ban accounts for breaking the site guidelines like this, so please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this again.
> I had no choice in this and he used everything from back-room deals to flat out lies to achieve this.

And a couple of well documented crimes.
And Norway

Most of those other places do suck, though.
In my experience, laundromats do not have a ton of competition outside of a dense urban center. In a region where hundreds of thousands live, and in a town 40000, there are 2 laundromats, both very unkept and with old and gross laundry machines. Business is there to make money and squeeze as much out of every machine. Talking to these people, they rarely replace a machine if its dirty or doesn't do a good job, only if its broken/unfixable. I think your view comes from a very rosy world which rarely is replicated in practice.
With the illegality of it, and the nature of addictive drugs it should remain illegal until regulated. I've seen enforcers for even marijuana dealers in illegal states. And what can you do? Report them, possibly get hurt worse and possibly die? The costs aren't predicated merely on enforcement, it's the scumbags making the quick buck because they can't do anything else that create the social cost as well. Think of the sum social cost of asshats like the crack and coke dealers of the 1980s.
That claim is not only unsupported, it's almost certainly false. The last few decades haven't been great for the middle class in wealthy countries, but it's been fantastic for "poorer people across the world." U.S. GDP per capita is up 60% since 2000. Bangladesh's is up 235%. India is up 288%. Thailand is up 195%. Poorer countries that have been able to cobble together enough rule of law to participate in capitalism have benefited tremendously from it.
In the office most programmers and designers use dark themes, but in fact they are more straining than light themes because your eyes do more work adjusting for seeing little bright things in the dark than for seeing little dark things in the light - I guess in the end it is a matter of taste.
But is that empirical evidence talking about peoples' overall position, or their position with respect to one particular exchange?

That is, it can be true that I feel rich or poor by comparing myself to others, not based on my absolute wealth. It can also be true that I look at any individual transaction and decide whether to make it or not based on whether it makes me better off in absolute terms.
Fortunately the legal maximum is total radiated power and not 'power radiated in one particular direction'.

I did some pretty interesting stuff with 19 element Yagi's and very low power transmitters.
He's selling a book for frontend developers. It's good business sense to flatter your audience.

In my experience (and I started as a frontend engineer and then moved backwards in the stack while at Google, then founded my own company), most business value lies in the back-end. That's where your durable competitive advantage is. The thing is that backend is more specialized - you can't really specialize in backend engineering in general, you specialize in a particular problem domain that has a particular set of algorithms and data structures used to solve it. That's why you often see more job postings for front-end engineers: the market is more liquid, the frameworks are more ubiquitous, the skillsets are more commoditized, and so you'll see postings for "React engineer" or "iPhone developer" or "Android developer". When looking for a backend position, that same company may want an engineer with experience using Spark & Kafka to process the Twitter firehose.
Double Capital Group Launches First Cryptocurrency Indexation and Analysis Service
I’ve also been learning about crypto currencies lately. One thing I found helpful was implementing the popular proof of work algorithms.
I did a sha256 python implementation , it was quite fun.
I think that’s an extreme minority, and the benefit would be limited.

The notion of sides in political media deteriorates the conversation into an argument, which at some point undermines an audience’s fundamental awareness and understanding of issues.
Of course, that's disputed. I tend to believe it, however, because the sources which relate the story also add the Nicolas was put in jail for it until he apologized for letting his zeal overcome him. It's not the sort of detail that fabricated accounts would be likely to include, but it's certainly what would have happened had Nicolas gotten a little slappy with Arius.
I think you're right it's not remotely The Worst Vulnerability Ever. Personally I'm a bit worried that we're just one exploit away from it being that in the future though. :/

I usually like to include a metaphor to explain the equivalence as I see it, but I'm struggling to come up with any other thing where we've built in a problem like this that's waiting for a single event that could effect nearly everyone. The closest I can come up with is Snow Crash, and having to reach that far into science fiction leads me to think we likely have a poor grasp on how to assess this risk (since we as a species are fairly bad at assessing and mitigating risk for events we haven't encountered before). Hopefully it's just an extreme failure of imagination on my part.
So a closed source electron app? No thanks...
Finding a job. I'm in that awkward stage between "finishing uni" and "finding a job" and I'm starting to get (overly?) anxious about it.
order enough of them and i expect you could get one of the sellers to give you specs. they just use 433MHz; shouldn't be too hard to talk to them once you know what to send.
"Spoiler warning for The Silmarillion" (but no corresponding spoiler warning for "Pulp Fiction").

I've read The Silmarillion, but not seen Pulp Fiction, so thbbbbbt.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply! Really helpful. The NGO sounds interesting. I read about a company like that that used pouchdb...wonder if it's the same one.
No, the central idea of capitalism is the re-investment of the surplus produced, rather than consumption of the surplus, no matter where the surplus came from. The surplus can come from one's own labor, or from a sole proprietorship.

I can tell that you've fallen for Marxist rhetoric.
I'm switching jobs to a similarly-paying, but less demanding role with no commute (vs 3 total hours daily right now).

At the same time, I'm establishing a business entity on the side. The goal for this entity is to use my extra time and focus my learning in a way that generates income. I initially plan to do part-time consulting and I have a client lined up, but long term my goal is to develop a stable income working on open source software in areas where I'm interested.

If I am shrewd and lucky this will become my primary source of income.
Toys being abundant and cheaply available didn’t fix poverty.
Singapore Airlines used to have an all business flight to NYC, but it’s been phased out.
Ironically one of the motive and informative conversations is taking place here, in the flagged thread.
>> As an example, Lufthansa recently used jumbo jets on the domestic Frankfurt / Berlin route after their competitor Air Berlin went belly up.

Color commentary:
This is a outcome of a micro trend that was caused due to the collapse the 2nd largest airline in Germany. It is unlikely this is an indicator of longer aircraft deployment. Regional and domestic routes tend to skew towards frequency and convenience. Most major airports and regulators also encourage this behavior when analyzing and distributing airport slots.
Imagine if in the real world we would have people come up with new metals to compete with gold, silver, platinum, etc. as viable stores of value. This dilution and unlimited supply of cryptocurrency types will not be good for Bitcoin in the long run.
Mitigation does not necessarily mean to entirely protect. Having less of a homogeneous ecosystem mitigates the risk of any one vulnerability, as it's unlikely to affect as many systems. It's not a solution, but it may help.
Do you want it to do something besides calls? I've got 2 phones that have lasted 10+ years: Nokia 1100 and Nokia 5110 (the 5125 variant).

I actually had to stop using the 5110 because the technology wasn't supported anymore (the frequencies were re-purposed for something else), and that's probably what will happen to your 10+ year phone.

You can still purchase a Nokia 1100. It's the world's best-selling handset because you can do all you mentioned.

I still have both in a drawer, and they boot when charged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_1100

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_5110
I did this recently with a Nokia 105.

It's amazing how much space it has cleared up in my life, and how distorted the relationship with the phone has become- it's supposed to be a tool that works for me, right?

I wrote some thoughts on it:
https://medium.com/@LastZactionHero/quitting-the-smartphone-...
Presumably some readers bought the book when Shen appeared on the frontpage because its price on Amazon has risen from 40 usd to 230 usd: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01K3JCGGI
The 747 without fuel tank inerting is still has a very good safety record. It's been over 20 years since one has had a fuel tank explosion. FAA estimates are without inserting a passenger jet risks a fuel tank explosion every 60M hours, or roughly every 30,000 years. Lastly, it's unclear how well the FAA inerting requirements will even work, they only reduce oxygen levels to 12%, while military jets require 9% to eliminate explosion risks.

It's silly to spend a large amount of money to retrofit planes near the end of their useful lives with safety equipment of questionable benefit. Especially when every bit of equipment introduces it's own new risks.
Please don't take threads into this extremely repetitive territory. It breaks the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

One reason we have such a guideline is that usually the vote totals don't stay the way they were. Then we end up with a tedious subthread which is garbage in the additional sense that it's no longer connected to the thing it was referring to.
"Real" languages use "=" and "==" ;)

Was unfamiliar with the minefield of bash issues, still, I do like the -eq operator, even if bash implements it poorly.
The eigenvalues of the Hessian of a neural network describe the curvature of the loss function. It is generally believed that in NNs trained with stochastic gradient descent regions with high curvature tend to generalize poorly.
These folks hold the relation "environmentalism == feminine == unacceptable" in their minds.

You could try to reinforce "environmentalism != feminine", and that's certainly easier. But there is still a great deal of wrongness in "feminine == unacceptable" and you choose to ignore it, even perpetuate it, by changing your tune to appease fragile men.
Having a smartphone is quite handy when you are travelling for maps, etc.

I just removed most of the apps and for the remaining apps disabled notifications. The exceptions are iMessage/Whatsapp where I enable notifications for persons who are not spammy and dear to me. I have also enabled e-mail notifications, but most e-mail skips my inbox through filters.

I have also set some very strict rules: no smartphone use during breakfast/dinner/coffee. No Hacker News after 20:30 (outside holidays). I also try to avoid looking at a computer at all after 20:30 (for better sleep cycles), but I am a bit more flexible there.
Updating state of a parentless component in React
>Imagine if in the real world we would have people come up with new metals to compete with gold, silver, platinum, etc. as viable stores of value.

Like dollars, euros, pounds, etc...
What evidence have you seen that suggests this project is remotely a viable store of value?
In 2018 I hope to master the full planche pushup.
I agree. That's why I no longer watch TV shows. Movies only. I can easily commit to a few hours one night.