skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, beliefs are chosen for consequences. And the optimal way to choose a belief based on consequences is to choose the truth.

For example, my decision whether to take an umbrella today must be based on my honest best guess whether it'll rain today (and the relative utilities of various outcomes). If I shift my best guess one inch away from what's warranted by evidence, to obey social pressure or something, then acting-as-if the new belief was true will predictably lead to lower expected utility for me. That holds always, no matter how controversial the belief.

When social pressure is weak, it mostly makes people lie about their beliefs, while still acting-as-if their best guess was true. When social pressure gets strong, people start acting-as-if false things were true, and get lower utility. No amount of pressure can change the fact that actions based on accurate beliefs lead to higher expected utility. That's why I'm not a fan of social pressure on beliefs. For both individuals and societies, the best consequences are achieved by believing what is true.
I, for one, cannot wait until someone is able to alter a few words to a contract I've signed after I've signed it.
There's a fine line between positive and false positive.
Ditto for "news articles" that are written by PR firms for the companies being discussed. Looking at you Forbes/Business Insider.
Evolution of CSS layout: 1990s to the future
> If you pay for your own electricity, you'd be better off donating directly.

But to donate directly, you'd need a common payment service. That means registering (password and two-factor), then either transferring money to your account or authorizing it to draw from your bank account, and finally sending the payment, probably revealing a fair few bit of information about yourself to a website you may like but not necessarily trust. And every step of that process can be hacked, or have connection problems, or you may be on a different computer and need to re-login, and so on.

Paying with electricity lets you skip all that, and HN should be well aware that convenience is worth a lot of money.

In addition to that, with money you must choose how much to donate, and that is a burden on its own. (Does this blogger deserve one buck, or two? I gave two to that article last week, and this dude is almost as good, but I've decided my weekly budget is X €, and I'm almost over it, etc. etc.)

With a JS miner, you pay exactly as long as you keep the tab open, which is a pretty good proxy for how much the page is personally valuable to you.
Thanks a lot. Any references you can share?
Have anybody believed to their pledge "to never spam you and only use it for ensuring your account security?"
You might find this useful in your research: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/email-section/
A verbal contract still counts as a contract though, so if the property owner had a verbal agreement that the artwork would not be destroyed, and he violated that agreement, I think it makes sense that he is liable for the damages. Seems somewhat similar to destroying a painting a tenant had hung up, you have to give them the opportunity to remove it first.
This is analogous to Facebook moving from individual walls to a newsfeed. Why did they move to newsfeed? Easily consumable ad units.

People WILL get used to it, and advertisers will soon have programmatic access to ads that will show in the Discover section. Whether or not they will add value to the advertisers with this format is the real question.

This change is no surprise to me, nor will they change it. Driven by the need for ad revenue [0]

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14983800#14985153
Sounds like Snapchat is pulling a YikYak.
When you've lived and single-handedly fought an infestation, you never forget what a bedbug looks like. It's mentally exhausting, because they're EVERYWHERE.

I remember sticking one on my wall as a battle trophy.
Brainstorming here about software projects you wouldn't want to be agile. Agile being where you are shipping to production in short cadences.

- Healthcare system software - not IT but like software on those blood pressure monitor, drug dosing things hanging beside patients. You want to get those types of things right.

- Software for anything in the military involving weapon systems.

- Nuclear power plant control software.

I honestly believe that 95% of software developers don't touch these types of things but I would think these are cases where a waterfall approach with heavy QA cycles is desired.
Anything is possible with a Turing Complete solution.
Building a complete online payment gateway
Camels were used in present-day Romanian Dobruja up until at least the 1930s, first introduced there probably by the Ottomans or even the Tatars before them. One such article (in Romanian) with a couple of not-so-great but rare black and white photos of said camels: http://adevarul.ro/locale/constanta/povestea-camilelor-dobro...
One interesting application is permeable space suit designs. The idea is that instead of encapsulating an astronaut in a flexible pressurized container you put them in a tight fitting suit that can apply the 3.5 lbs of force per square inch necessary to counter the pressure of the air they breath. Cooling is provided by normal perspiration through the fabric. (Don't forget that vacuum is a great insulator!)
I get that. Unless you explain the situation to me in detail, I definitely won't have a useful solution for you. And even after you explain the situation to me in detail, I probably won't have a useful solution for you. This would be a lot of emotional labour for an interaction where the median expected value seems very low, and the mode is zero. Totally get why this isn't something you'd want to go through repeatedly.

(Actually, describing it in this way reminds me of pitching a book to a publisher, or a startup to an investor. Each pitch takes a really significant amount of energy, and you have to be prepared to do it many dozens of times with completely null results -- and with no guarantee that there will ever be anything other than a null result. This breaks a lot of peoples' spirits. I know a handful of brilliant writers with unpublished novels sitting on their shelves, because they just couldn't keep going through the pitch-rejection cycle. As writers, they are probably superior to, say, Agatha Christie, who endured five years of nonstop rejection before making her first sale. But they are not as stubborn, and therein lies the rub.)

So, yeah, I understand. The only thing I can counter with is that even if you feel like you've explored the whole possibility-space, you haven't. Nobody has -- ever. There may be solutions for you; there always may be solutions for you; the question is how to maintain the core internal energy to keep searching for them.

I don't have any super-brilliant advice in that regard. Only thing I can offer -- and you've probably already gotten this plenty of times; apologies if so -- is that meditation can be extraordinarily helpful for this kind of thing. Not immediately helpful -- the benefits can take weeks or months to fully kick in -- but simply being in touch with your breathing, and training your mind to be free of the cycles of worry which it otherwise is (necessarily) consumed by, can help you find that core of energy if it exists. In general, if you are breathing: it exists. And even if it is doesn't, meditation can help you look at the situation more dispassionately. What you don't want to do is to make permanent decisions out of exhaustions or frustrations which may not, in a bigger picture that you haven't been able to consider, be permanent.

Final bit of advice: if you don't have the ability to meditate (physical or mental challenges can sometimes make this impossible), psilocybes can provide a viable shortcut for similar results. I definitely recommend not checking out until you've consulted with them first. What have you got to lose? :-)
As I understand it, many diseases that wild mice almost all carry have been eliminated in lab mice, using some fairly crazy measures. They also have very little genetic variation due to the way they have been bred.

I think there is a very interesting scifi novel in reading about how that stuff was achieved and what human society would be like after it was applied...
Windows 10 is adding an Ultimate Performance mode for pros
Hasn't the latest Geth update improved syncing?
https://blog.ethereum.org/2018/02/14/geth-1-8-iceberg%C2%B9/
Do you find carb intake has any effect, positive or negative?
s/idea/incentive/
> I personally would welcome as much strategic and intellectual diversity as possible onto teams I'm running.

Me too. I just think the blanket assertion that a junior dev is the coding equal to a senior dev is what's nutty.
You literally just copied the top comment on YouTube...
This is what baffles me about it. It keeps being touted by some as a "faster Ruby", while they explicitly make decisions that makes it incompatible with Ruby even when it comes to relatively simple syntax.
Not really sorry. I'd recommend if you are looking to search for a therapist in your area that has experience dealing with adults with ADHD (or children if you are looking for someone else, or I guess are a child yourself... you never know online!)

The important thing is to go to the appointments, which was tough at first, but after a bit the appointments were the "anchor" that I started learning how to schedule my life around, and then I was eventually able to schedule the appointments around my life.
I think there are quite a few credible alt-fusion projects out there. I have no particular animus towards ITER but I am disappointed that its multi-decade scope, megabudget, and sunk cost, are starving research allocation into other approaches. Some of which seem to have clearer paths to energy production than magnetic confinement fusion.
My favorite dark horse is the inertial electrostatic confinement Polywell design, which is currently being funded (crumbs in comparison to ITER) by the Navy, who would of course love a submarine sized fusion reactor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell

Cool thing with the Polywell - if the physics actually pan out, the full size one should be able to fuse hydrogen and boron, which won't produce neutron radiation, just alpha particles that can be directly converted to electricity.
When I pay in cash (digital or otherwise), I know what I give out in terms of value for goods or services. This concept of renting out your computer time on the other hand is vague. How much 'currency' will be mined? Will it be proportional to the goods/services I get to use in exchange? How long will the process take? What if my system fails midway during 'payment'? Can this concept be extended to run arbitrary code in your browser in exchange for the service? Right now Javascript is at least nominally related to the page you access. But what if tomorrow the code you're asked to execute is totally unconnected with the service being offered?

This just smacks of convenience for the implementers and as for the user, it exchanges a straightforward system for a murky deal.
If you watch the video you'll see that one of the first things he does is to make the coin counter show Mario's x-position in the level. But up until that point yes, he has to do a lot of pixel-perfect actions. Extremely impressive.
> This “war” has been going on for centuries. The difference is that white men were totally dominating it until recent times, and a lot of them really don’t like that they may need to adapt behavior. African Americans had a right side of the street to walk on within the last 2 generations, for risk of being lynched. You better believe they’ve been parsing every word out of their mouths, not for fear of being labeled a mean word, but for fear of being killed, or having their families killed.

That's US-centric. Until a century ago the majority of humans did not have a lot of freedom. Living under some autocratic ruler. The skin color or gender was irrelevant: only who you were the child of. A Chinese noblewoman had a lot more freedom than a English farmer.
I don't have a good intuition for that kind of heterogeneous comparison.

Can it be compared with other Internet services? How much electricity does Facebook consume, for example? What about internet advertisements?
Concern about tritium leaks, the need for tritium breeding which limits how fast you can build new reactors, hard neutron radiation that theoretically could be used to breed fissiles (but only if you have a high-enough tritium breeding ratio to keep the reactor fueled, despite not using all your neutrons for that), and the need for a steam turbine, which means you're not going to achieve the extremely low costs that may be achievable with aneutronic fusion.

Which doesn't mean D-T is hopeless, just not as good as aneutronic. I've seen fusion scientists say the waste from D-T reactors would only need to be contained for several decades.
Why Hybrid Cloud Computing is becoming a preferred choice for enterprise
Thinking about how difficult this must have been to do with 1960s analog video technology makes this feature more impressive.
The primary purpose of Agile ceremonies (if done correctly) is to provide a structured way to surface and resolve resource and process issues (as well as prioritize) in a way that allows team-members to otherwise get on with their work as they see fit - without the constant threat of distraction by product/delivery managers' concerns about resources, processes and ever-shifting priorities.

If Agile ceremonies don't achieve this or otherwise excessively waste time, they're just a form of cargo-culting.
> he did it in a very loud way

From what I remember he did not. Someone at Google publicized a document written by Damore on a Google forum.
The book's author was interviewed on the Bite podcast: https://www.motherjones.com/food/2018/01/thank-hippies-for-t....
Why did you copy paste the first comment on the youtube page? Video is funny though, worth watching.
> 2. that does not mean that reasoning in weaker models is feasible.

If you limit it explicitly to models powerful enough to run arbitrary computation, then that sounds reasonable.

But there are a whole lot of situations where a sufficient set of useful algorithms for that given context are computable using models that we can reason much better about if you are willing to throw out the requirement to be able to run arbitrary computations.

A simple example is that you can easily define a model of computation that "solves" the halting problem the crude way: Just add an upper bound to the number of steps, and halt the problem after that number of steps. Now you know any program halts. Make the limit low enough and it actually makes a difference. Of course this model can not compute arbitrary programs. But depending on your needs it may be able to compute sufficiently complex programs.

More reasonable examples would be specialized domain languages like Sieve for filtering e-mail, that address reasoning by having no branching or loops or writable state.

The challenge is that accidentally expanding such a model in ways that accidentally adds back enough power to cause problems in reasoning about the programs is very easy.
I have little feedback for you, other than don't spend 7k on a PR firm. Maybe someone will hold a different opinion, but for the most part they are useless.

You're probably better investing that money in advertising. Or flying out and meeting new clients. It really depends on the industry and how 'niche' your product is, and how you can connect with your customers.

Conferences can sometimes be interesting as well, if they allow you to connect with people in your industry.
Where exactly is my logic funny? Mined blockchains scale linearly. Increasing block size, etc. can increase speed temporarily but can still only scale linearly. Busy site or not, the ledger needs an architectural change to handle exponential growth. Your busy Postgress db would also need to change in architecture from a single resource to something more distributed in order to scale exponentially. A less busy website of the same architecture also wouldn't handle exponential growth. What am I missing?

Edit: To clarify, yes, some mined blockchains feel faster now simply because they are less busy. They are still doomed to Bitcoin's fate at scale unless distributed systems techniques like sharding (or Nano's block lattice) are used. I'm not saying that the less busy blockchains are any better.
WhatsApp's Payment Feature in India Gets Top Local Wallet App's CEO Furious
It's just a parametric plot showing two values changing over time. I suppose it's not too common for noisy data like this, but parametric plots are pretty common.

The reasoning behind it is probably to emphasize that in most cases course length and average speed both increased over time, rather than being correlated.
Over time, calling the customer service line back
over and over, she would piece together information.
The name on the account that shipped the product was
different from the one used on the credit card, she
discovered, all of which were different from her name
and address.

How do you think they got your information?
AV1 is better than HEVC, is not patented, and was invented by companies interested in conserving bandwidth out of need. So yes, things get invented without patents.
Right right. But I think Thiel chose NZ for other reasons. NZ offers tax-free living for the first 5 years of your stay.
I haven't noticed anything specific, but I haven't really ever been focused on carbs alone. Most of my dietary issues were simply eating at all (I could easily go an entire day without getting hungry, and the medication only makes this worse), and making sure I was cutting my caffeine intake out (didn't work) or at least making it very consistent (like most stimulants it has a positive effect on the ADHD, but unless it's consistent it can cause more problems than it solves).

I'm still working on this, and it's one of the major reasons why I want to talk to my doctor and try different medications again, but I have heard some say that low-carb high-fat diets are beneficial to ADHD, and I know that many agree that having "enough" fat in your diet is crucial. I also really need any extra calories I can get right now, so cutting carbs isn't the best idea until I have a handle on my weight.
This is probably the most reasoned counterargument I've seen here.

I'm going to step away and do some more reading on the subject before responding. Since this thread will likely be stale by then, I'll put up a blog post or similar with my updated thoughts.
Exactly. What more, it "only" consumes as much energy annually as a whole country because the bulk of the mining is currently done using specialized hardware.

If websites begin to crowdsource mining on their visitors' PCs using JavaScript, the energy consumption will be even higher.
That's my understanding as well. If you are writing a new Notepad.exe, you probably don't care about Spectre.
I've seen this sentiment from former fans of left leaning fiction, and I have to ask: are you sure it's not the culture that's stayed the same and you who drifted right?
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This is almost definitely not the place to be experimenting with HN mark[down|up].
You can use the Leap Motion in AltspaceVR and Bigscreen already, I hope the Tabletop Simulator developers will support it natively with intuitive gestures one day.
Gonna be interesting to see benchmarks especially after seeing how little the "Game" mode did
I wonder why they aren't using the approach others are taking.

That is, compile an array access a[i] into an array of size N as a[i&M] where M is one less than the next power of two larger than N.

The logical and is very fast; it can be applied everywhere without a big performance hit. And this removes almost all the attack surface, as the real vulnerability is when the attacker forces speculative access to go way outside the array to unrelated memory that probably even belongs to another process.

Edit: actually there is an even better masking approach the linux kernel is using -- see https://lwn.net/Articles/744287/
>> It's not a scientific paper, it was an internal memo shared with a few colleagues. Also that's how evidence works, you make a narrative and support it with references. What else would you do?

You use references in scientific papers; not in everyday conversations. You do it when you want to refer to previous work that your own work is based on, not to win a debate and not to show that there is support for your beliefs.

The fact that Demore's memo was not a scientific paper, but was peppered with references to various scientific works he lacked the training to understand only serves to underline how silly it looked.

>> Also we see the same thing in animals.

We also see cannibalism (including sexual cannibalism), incest, fratricide and all sorts of nasty little things in animals (particularly insects). We see the same things in humans (except maybe for eating your mates after sex).

So, what?
You can use Messenger with deactivated Facebook account by the way.
Even the solution for the halting problem?
It lasted two hours. Now the way it worked was that I was doing on my own but I had to constantly explain to a "peer" my line of reasoning. So I was not alone in front of a white paper :-) This was an extremely interesting wy to interview. I felt I had the opportunity to demonstrate my skills on a difficult problem (which I didn't solve). I didn't remember the details of Dijkstra's algorithm but I had the opportunity to show that I can approach a complex problem in a logical and efficient way (well, that day, that kind of problem; don't ask me to work on helicoidal tomography :-))
I'm aware this is a stupid reason, but I love that really complex behavior can be programmed in these seemingly simple interfaces because it tricks people that are otherwise uninterested or unaware of what programming is into trying it out. It was part of what 'hooked' me into computer science, to be frank

I recall programming a scenario for AoE2 and becoming increasingly interested in finding the 'boundary' for the most complex stuff (that would still somewhat fit into the design of the scenario I was building).

I also remember using an assisted tool to 'erase' the names of the Triggers in the interface so people couldn't "steal" my scenario. The dumb idiot then lost the version with the Trigger names and now no-one can edit it, at least not with human effort

The scenario is pretty cool though, so at least I still have a playable version to show for it and last I checked it worked in the Steam version of AoE2
Why your dev team slows down and what to do about It
Why not start with 1 car, 10 cars, 0.1% and beyond.

My point is prerelease testing can only catch so much. you can think of many bugs that affected only people with certain settings etc. It is hard to replicate all the conditions appearing in the wild. This could be as simple as "last software/firmware version", or as complex as "car stalls as it makes a u turn". Hard to test all these.
Gmail uses custom tabs and you can pop it to browser on android.
They do stretch a little over time. I have kite flying lines from Dyneema and Spectra, and they stretch over time and need to be equalized (move the knots so the lengths match).

But it's very little, I had about 2.5cm change in 25m over a few years. That's 1 part in 1000. This is from irregular kite flying, so not under (very) high tension or constant stress.

Fantastic materials, nevertheless.
Missing from the list is Dwarf Fortress: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Computing

Great when you want to try and create a computer while trying to fend off goblin attacks and zombies.

Technically, it's not Turing Complete, as the "tape" is not unlimited, but other Turing Complete games have the same issue.
With enough wrapping, the templates can be okay to write. For example https://github.com/llllllllll/wired looks like a shitty lisp.