skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact, one of the purposes of this project was to test exactly what it was like to use a Trello-like tool implemented this way.

What happens is that humans have intuitive coordination systems and tend to fix the same problems.

In other words, if the card title is "rename auotmerge" then both of us are likely to change it the same way, or at least either resolution is fine. In the event of a conflict we flag the multi-value in the UI so that a human user can decide if they care.

Where this approach shines is in domains where it helps avoid conflicts rather than resolving them. Naively adding replies to a comment thread might result in collisions or misordered comments across nodes of a distributed team. Automerge captures enough metadata from the operations created by users that changes "tend" to merge well.

I realize this is an argument not from first principles but from experience. We weren't able to find examples of other people building web applications with quite this approach (though we would love to hear from them if they are out there) and so the question was "will this feel alright?"

Apparently it does.

If you find this result provocative, I would encourage you to challenge it by attempting to build something with automerge and letting us know how it goes. I believe it will work well in applications where all user operations can always commute to produce a subjectively reasonable result. To make that concrete, a bank account is a poor domain to model with a tool like this, but a shared drawing is much better.
What are some good Django opensource projects like Discourse?
Projects like Discourse help me understand the how to the large projects are organized keeping code clean. Is there anything like Discourse for Django?
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They actually taught us this in Business English class. They said we should do this when talking to people from the States which was really weird for us since most Europeans said they find it patronizing.
I see this attitude all the time while people are being automated out of their jobs. Those people end up getting laid off anyway, and then wondering why jobs for their skillset don't pay as much as they used to.

Resisting automation doesn't help, because if you don't do it, someone else eventually will.

If you're in a job that's at risk of being automated in the near term, you're much better off learning how to automate it and switching to being one of the automators, than continuing doing something that's all but proven to be something machines can do. People capable of automating jobs out of existence are in high demand, for obvious reasons.

If you're not capable of becoming an automator, that's more of a problem. In that case you probably need a strategy for moving into a different kind of job, that's less threatened.
Seems backwards. You should get more voting rights if you lock yourself into holding the stock for >5 years.
The true nature of electronic cigarettes: they are not safe
Do you have any experience with this? I have a father in law that has been together with a nurse manager for many years now, and she is the reason for the argument. Mothers of young children ask for less hours, less crappy shifts, and ability to take days off work with sick children. And they get it.

But regardless, those kind jobs are unionized here and the pay is not something you negotiate. Not for women, or men. In other words, they don't represent the difference in wages, because they are fixed and they do, by design, not differ just because you become a parent.
Least expensive cars to maintain

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11879869

https://www.yourmechanic.com/article/the-most-and-least-expe...
Writing HTML and CSS to implement a mockup is trivial for anyone with even a little bit of web dev experience. If you want high quality code, an AI isn't going to produce that.

I can't imagine ever using something so complex, if I can implement the same thing in a few minutes.

There's also further considerations when dealing with the real world. For example, you need to be aware of how to handle different accessibility features. Designers rarely seem to care about things like accessibility, but it needs to be declared somewhere.
Hmmm... I think I read the same insurance statistic and the number was 17.9 years, which is close enough. The concerning bit was that the number came from insurance claims not accidents, which might be under-reported, because nobody wants their insurance to go up! As a result many parking bumper dings, minor side swipes of other cars, bicycles, and pedestrians probably aren't reported.

Otherwise, judging from the bumpers of most cars in NY/SF... I would guess that each person had filed hundreds of claims.
Senate to spotlight virtual currencies as Bitcoin plunges
I'm told OT gets very complicated, and I hoped a good CRDT would be general-purpose enough to cover a variety of applications and domains. Also, I like not needing a central server to coordinate action. Would love to compare notes -- feel free to reach out to me on twitter at the same nick.
A database of happy moments
>>Basically the government sucks at almost anything. Why do people advocate for their growth and increasing power?

Because people don't know what and who to trust. There is so much information out there, and so many conflicting claims about it all means, that there's no easy way to tease out what's true. Anyone advocating for a particular policy comes across as an ideologue, because they cannot possibly convey the body of facts that informs their position, meaning what they mostly present is fervent belief and insistence that they are right.
There is a pretty strong empirical support for the random walk hypothesis, the essence of which is that performance tomorrow is independent of performance today.
First one quick aside, Wikipedia tends to fare very poorly when we get into contemporary issues or issues involving social matters. And that is certainly in play here. The "Historical Accounts" features such amazing information as the story of a pregnant woman grabbing a sword and scaring away an attacking force, while topless of course. The "Historical Existence" section is literally nothing but stating that there are two scholars that argued they existed, and one scholar that argued that they did not exist.

The main point is again that we have hundreds of years of activity from a civilization that heavily interacted with numerous other civilizations. And the written word had long since been developed and spread. If female fighters played any meaningful role whatsoever, you would not be here trying to debate it using obscure bits of low quality evidence - it would be as self evident as vikings being male. They would have regularly participated in battles, been regularly observed (and noted) by other cultures and so on. But instead you're left to cite tales of a pregnant woman scaring off an attacking force bare breasted, or reference "physical evidence" like 'there was a female skeleton inside a grave that had weapons!'

To be clear, why do you think vikings were men? I needn't provide you with some obscure tale of a man buried in a grave or whatever. These battles were regularly recounted, vikings were regularly interacted with, and the entire civilization is reasonably well recorded. And there's no real ambiguity. Any ambiguity is in us taking isolated incidents and trying to extrapolate them upwards while ignoring the other 99.99999% of evidence.
You always have a mix. There will be growth in some markets, and inflation in others.

Humans tend to eat always roughly the same amount of food (except if they can't afford it). So food prices generally inflate with wage increases. Growth leads to bigger televisions, safer cars, faster internet being available at roughly the same price.
साल 2018 का पहला सूर्यग्रहण 15 फ़रवरी, इन चार राशियों की चमक जाएगी किस्मत II
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Researchers blaze new ground in wireless energy generation
It's still going! Latest:

- video of a tiny version https://youtu.be/vL3mnidBkeQ

- someone claims that objects do bounce off it
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4jb24s/what_are_...

- someone claims that others made accidental forcefields
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/7kv54c/til_a...

After twenty years I finally tried a forcefield experiment: HVDC supply hooked to perfmetal electrodes as mentioned on Reddit. Nope, the high-field gap has no effect on intruding sticks, or even blocks nylon filaments. And reducing the gap just triggers big sparks. (But maybe it needs some 100Meg resistors, to stabilize it like an NE-2 neon bulb?)
The ADA doesn’t create any standard for documentation. Where’s the definition?
SUPPLIER+BATU+ALAM+MURAH
You say it like there's something to do, but in your formulation it's actually a lose-lose situation. Either you automate and get fucked, or someone else does and you get fucked anyway. Either way you have to try and find a different job, which isn't free, costless, or painless.

Yes, automation creates better global productivity, but it also creates concentrated harms that are almost never redressed. Similar problem as outsourcing/free trade.
That first quote was someone else's comment, but I don't see anything wrong with the premise. Trajectory and velocity are absolutely properties of career advancement. There's also the question of whether women with children at home are working the same number of hours at the office as men, even after they return to work. Let's throw in the average willingness of a male partner to limit their own career by prioritizing taking care of children over needs of their employer as a factor as well.

Children take an enormous amount of time and money to raise. And the amount of time and money we spend raising our children has increased significantly, as the age of maturity continues to increase (anecdotally this has gone well past 18 years old now, it seems children on average are being taken care of by their parents well into their 20s now). Someone in the family needs to be able to get home to make dinner every night. If you mostly can't travel for your company, that's a big limiting factor for high paying jobs. If you can't stay past 5 oclock without it being an issue that needs to be planned for, that's a big limiting factor for high paying jobs. If you get called away from an important meeting because your child is sent home from school with a cold... It's reasonable for employers to pay more to employees which can offer a higher level of service and flexibility and accommodation for work schedule and travel requirements.

One (or more) parental figures in the household need to elect to be on-call, and whoever makes that choice is going to see less outside income because of it. Equality doesn't mean that men and women need to make the same choices, just that a man and woman who do make the same choice should see the same outcome. What the statistics are showing us is merely that men and women, on average, tend to have different preferences and make different choices.
But some of us are very easily bored. Being trapped doing the same job for a few years is torture. So automating the stuff thats boring becomes very attractive. I cant imagine how unpleasant it will be if i have to write html and css for the rest of my life, automation cant come quickly enough. In fact I have a break between contracts coming up and i intend to monetise this technique.
The Death of Clothing
Why Alexa doesn't respond when someone says 'Alexa' in an ad
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Regarding this and previous discussions on this topic on HN, it seems to me that one of the primary motivating factors when constructing a new ranking system should be the possibility of cyclical dominance a la rock/paper/scissors, which we should expect to see in many modern complex games. If one wanted to solve that problem, I think it would require some form of multidimensional ranking. Then one would have added flexibility so you could accurate predict winners from the scoring with some function f(x_1,x_2) even in cyclical cases. This would be less interpret-able, but it would have a fair shot at actually modelling/predicting/depicting the dominance relationships between players.
F# hits a really nice sweet spot for this: scripts with an integrated interactive scripting environment, and complete access to a plethora of unit testing frameworks.

That lets you work line-for-line through your code, inspect and analyze each step as needed, edit parameters as wanted, restart and do clean runs through calculations using custom and third party libraries, and also interactively execute any tests/specs you have defined. It's a very tight feedback loop that doesn't compromise any of the long term artifacts you might want in a serious app.

In conjunction with .Nets extension mechanisms and some F# language features the setup lets you fire up a basic script, replace/extend anything from your object graph with new code, write accordant tests, and execute any or all parts of the test as desired in an interactive REPL-like session for problem solving and debugging: all in the same file :)

This flows really nicely with the single pass compiler, keeping things nice and clean so they integrate into the main app once exploratory development is done. Semi-serious typing, functional composition, and dynamic exploration -- it ain't bad.
A good REPL keeps a history. It happens frequently enough that dumping that history will give you a reasonable basis for a unit test. :)
The main problem why DDoS work is because ISPs are routing traffic that can't be originating from them. If ISPs would stop this, any IP that is trying to DoS you, is really that IP, not some spoofed source address.
Nugen Media Productions Battles to Get New Gandhi Movie Released in India
From some of the Germans I've talked to, there is a bit of a bias against East Germans. Some West Germans (especially Bavarians apparently) see East Germans as uneducated and more likely to be criminals.

I don't know how deep this bias runs, or how common it is, but it does exist.
The Age of Creativity (2017)
China Enlists Its 'Great Firewall' to Block Bitcoin Websites
A frowny push doesn't tell you what mistake you've made, it forces you to guess what's going through the customer's head.
With grave matters—the things that REALLY count—if you're able to make a difference, then it's your responsibility.
Your first link has refuting or critical comments from such notables as Vitalik Buterin and Brahm Cohen. In case anyone wanted a tl;dr to actually reading and evaluating that 15 minute logical fallacy of a read. And the other ones just reference the first link.
The open source Spring RTS interface allows for player-made AIs to execute inside the game engine. You can play alongside your bots (and turn certain behavior off/on with the interface).
> This is what we are all working for. If we can automate the stupid stuff we do then we can work on other interesting stuff and automate it too.

Read: Designing your job out from under your own feet

Also read: Becoming unemployable through your own making
Bitcoin below $6000
North of Netherlands Lures Elon Musk with Billboards
Seems to have a big effect on all crypto currencies: https://coinmarketcap.com/
S.447 – 115th Congress: For Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act
Is wikipedia deleting bios of scientists with odd ideas?
It seems to me that it's in the same category as a fork bomb - a neat trick requiring local access that will crash a machine. Deeming it a non-security bug seems entirely reasonable. As you say it

does not grant any privileges or expose any data to the attacker.

So the bug cannot really be exploited to compromise security except in a case where someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep even a local user from crashing the machine.
You realise that for some (if not most) people, even the idea of registering your own domain sounds like advanced, impossible to understand technical wizardry, right?
PopcornTime for Sci-Hub?
The housing bubbles happened outside the U.S., they lost market share as the bubble ramped up, and they did not own the riskiest loans.

Why do you think 2008 could not have happened without Fanny and Freddy?
Attempting to prevent this happening by ignoring it is more foolish.
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I once filed an easy to reproduce bug and was asked to provide sysdiagnose. I did that and then they came back saying that it was intended behavior. For real???
Why Should You Customize Your Current SuiteCRM/Sugar CRM System?
I've seen Cruise's cars braking for no reason, including once at the intersection (there's nothing in front of the car)

I couldn't tell if it figured out it's safe to proceed on its own or if someone took over. It's also possible that the human drivers were doing the braking but if that's the case they clearly need better safety drivers
Code this up in Python, sprinkle in some ML, and we can resolve these pesky theoretical discrepancies.
"And then you can took a look at the commit messages and you cringed more than a little".

Commit history in cowboy projects tends to be really bad.

I've seen a lot of "not so professional" comments in them like:

* empty message

* single word message like "update" or "hack"

* onomatopoeia (arghhh!!!!, yargla!!!!)

* all upper case commit message raging against the company and its lack of recognition
Ask HN: Which is the best Ruby on Rails book?
I am not new to development (built apps in dozens of frameworks/languages) but looking to create more elegant code and one of my friends recommended Rails. So, which book describes the best practice from a newbie -> expert.
Looks pretty though I can't try it out since it's iPhone-only but a few thoughts:

1. It's not a new concept, both the Planefinder and FR24 apps already have an AR point-and-tell mode on Android and iOS. The main difference is that this app seems to draw an orientated cartoon of each aircraft by type.

2. What is its back-end data feed? From Planefinder or FlightAware APIs perhaps? Without knowing that we can't determine what aircraft will appear, though I suspect it's only going to work for aircraft which transmit full ADS-B output ( large airliners & really expensive modern smaller aircraft )

3. In fact there's very little information about it at all. So it's not clear if it supports FLARM ( gliders ), PilotAware ( small private aircraft ) or Mode-S Multilateration. Does it implement the FAA's BARR list to elide corporate aircraft?

I don't intend to sound critical but being in this 'space' as a feeder to several tracking networks I've seen layperson friends rush-out to try these sort of apps and then become disappointed because they don't show the Cessna in which their son is doing his flight-training.

Addendum: also irritating that it displays the flight plan using the IATA three-letter codes. No-one files a plan using those, and they only cover a small proportion of all airfields.
Endowments themselves accrue over time. There's no need to indulge some wealthy person's fantasy of everlasting life through their money, especially after they're dead, when more people will be along to take their place.
Could it not be done through conventional ways like TODO or FIXME?
Ask HN: What language/framework should I learn for back end web dev in 2018?
I would like to invest some time and energy in mastering a web app framework (back end) for future projects. I have experience with ASP.NET, Rails, Node...but I wouldn't consider myself an expert at any of them. I would like to really dive deep and master a framework so that I can default to the chosen framework and "just build" things in the future. I'm primarily interested in producing RESTful or GraphQL APIs...so no need to talk about built-in views or which front end framework to choose.

I know there is no "perfect" answer to this question and some frameworks excel at certain things, but surely there are some frameworks which stand out for typical web application development in 2018. I definitely don't need to be on the bleeding edge of the web but I also don't want to invest my time learning a dying stack. (Or maybe there's no such thing as a dying stack?)

Popular opinions seem to be Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, and Elixir/Phoenix.

What would you invest your time in?
> Waymo has way more

Well-put!
The choice of swimming is more about race management. If you have people mass start a 750m or even ironman then you know everyone is out the water by a given time, say 1:30 for IM

Swim last means a race organiser has no control over when people arrive at the water and it can be spread over hours
Because I want to use JS with types and compiler rather than runtime error? If you are using Go, why not use Rust?
Either way you have to try and find a different job, which isn't free, costless, or painless.

The guy who wrote the code to automate away his job is going to have a lot easier time finding a new job than the guy who had no idea that it was even possible to automate that job and got completely blindsided. In fact any sane company will keep the guy who did the automation and have him apply his skills to automating away other departments.
I have done in the past. They don't look at those either...
:D
Then just don't use US based servers to host them.
Beste fietsenwinkel van Nederland
Exactly, which is extremely effective - good luck suing someone in China who doesn't give a fuck about US copyright (and in this case rightly so).
As an Aikidoka, I've read about Omoto before. I think Aikido wouldn't be the same without Ueshibas connection to Omoto.
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Yes. Modern times. Automate everything! https://youtu.be/n_1apYo6-Ow
> So the bug cannot really be exploited to compromise security

Do we really need to get into the discussion of how many times someone thought a bug wasn't a security problem or was unfeasible to use in an exploit in practice o ly to be proven wrong later as new techniques came about and were applied to the original problem?

The unknown unknowns are the problem here, and they are as their name suggests, hard to nail down.

Race conditions are a thing. My bet is a determined and smart hacker could find a way to weaponize this within a week at most.
Setting Up Awesome Window Manager on Ubuntu
Not sure about the far reaching implications of this, but it does potentially mean that Sheldon Cooper and Leslie Winkle can finally be friends...!
New iOS 11 Developer Features You Need to Know
> The anti-Americanism that's rife here is a bit ridiculous

Well—here's the other side of that—I frequently get thoroughly sick of the US parochialism, ignorance of history, denial of basic realities etc "that's rife here". Well, people swallowing whole the shiny story the US mass media seems to paint about the US' role in the world in the last 130 years is a large part of it I guess.

Not the first time I've read on here about someone sick of "the US being presented as the cause of all that is wrong in the world." But I don't think anyone says that.

You could have chopped out a page of your comment, the many lines of ridicule, as advised in the guidelines. Well, I can hardly advise you to stick to your point in a comment as off-topic as this. :-) But I thought your complaint needed counterbalancing.