skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also stumbled upon this too. The article was archived, I wonder why it's not redirecting. Now I'm finally enjoying this post too.

http://yorktownhistory.org/wp-content/archives/homepages/190...
Pity that the end result is always having bower, webpack, npm, yarn, gulp, yeoman installed.

Really painful when JavaScript is only used on the browser and the frontend files need to be integrated into the backend infrastructure written in a more sane language.
> I would assume that the rural are rational to the same degree as anyone else,

The rural have limited social interaction, leading to a biased worldview.
That would be awesome, and appreciated, I would love to give it a try.
They already have that. In Germany, mail is delivered by custom-made electric vehicles (streetScooter) and at least in London, UPS already uses electric trucks for delivery.
> If one considers studies from around the world, across many cultures, it's pretty clear to me that there's no IQ huge disadvantage to having African genetics. Nigerian immigrants are presently kicking ass and even outdoing Asians. Immigrant from many Caribbean backgrounds do very well. Also cited by myself elsewhere, there's a study that found that the African American children of US servicepeople in Germany was basically the same as their classmates.

Please share sources.
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A number of people believe you should take on low-interest debt (eg. student loans, introductory car payments, mortgages) and then invest the cash from them in higher-yielding investments (eg. the stock market, Bitcoin, P2P lending, new businesses).

IMHO these people are simply unaware of the concept of risk-adjusted returns or the idea that high-yield investments don't always go up and can, in fact, lose principal value, and they'll make up the next wave of bankruptcies when we next get a downturn. But the belief does exist, and has become increasingly more prevalent in the last couple years.
Link is dead, but code is on Github somewhere. Dunno where I found the link to it but I am away from computer for a few days so I can't really look it up for you.
Tomte is Swedish for "Santa", which seems fitting.
"Large" LDL is marginally less dangerous than "small" LDL but it still significantly raises your risk of CVD:

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-cholesterol-size-matte...
The visual cortex neurons have not only locality, but also they learn/recognize similar features. This was the original inspiration for the conv nets: it was a way to learn efficient local features and apply them to the whole image. To me it seems that cortex neurons and the initial layers of conv nets do similar work, but with constraints of their implementations: biological neurons cannot share weights, and for artificial neurons it is more efficient to learn and compute dense convolution.
I've used them with vps, dedicated server and cloud services and never had any issues. Are you sure you didn't get email warnings that you ignored?

Apart from that, having off-site backup is crucial either way and should be done with any provider.
Are you referring to episode #116? https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/waking-up-with-sam-harri... Or has the topic come up in an earlier episode?
1) There was no hijab in Xinjiang before and now it is very common. 2) DARPA has many research grants on ughyur language.
I wonder how would you determine when a page came into existence.
There was also the chance that you kill somebody. Hitting people is riskier than movies make you believe. Occasionally people die even from a single punch.
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Isn't this a meaningless statement to begin with? Every nation is a nation of immigrants if you go back far enough.
Thanks for this. Can't upvote this enough. Still going through lots of gems that I would never have read without this.
p.s thanks for ruining lot of my work hours. but thanks!
One rule of thumb that's served me well: the sooner someone brings negativity and hard luck stories into your interactions, the more negativity they'll bring into your life.
China's population is 1.35B, which is about 20% (1/5th) of the world's population.
You guys may be concerned about China today. However, in the long run, with AI the humans are building a zoo for themselves.

When machines are able to complete every task better, win every strategic confrontation, and so on, there will not be any point for humans to make any significant contributions - including art. Even video and audio will be faked easily.

When their every move can be scrutinized and next moves easily predicted, they can be easily caged and controlled. Raised to go along with anything, because "resistance is futile".

The world is being turned into monocultures and farms. And humans are building a zoo for themselves. No one will really run the place in the end.
Compile times are often mitigated by just using the runHaskell interpreter, or turning off optimisations.

What sort of tools does Go have that Haskell doesn't? From what I can see, most Go projects just use Makefiles and text editors. The package manager is described as "experimental".

In Haskell land we have many good choices, with my favourite (for deterministic reproducible builds), being nix and cabal new-build. I've also seen Haskell Shake replace C++ Makefiles at work for a huge speedup.

Haskell has good API search (Hoogle), docgen (Haddock), lint (HLint) and graphical profiling tools (Threadscope). Refactoring tools like HaRe and others, are also starting to appear.
Exactly - in which case, I don't understand why AirBNB allows listings in those places, or at least warn you. It's a terrible user experience to find out you're an unwitting co-conspirator in someone else's crime.
> But you are marketing this to "Makers".

I don't get that from their page at all. At minimum, it seems like they're marketing it to "Makers" who are trying to make an actual product, at which point they do have to care.
Businesses can now send Android users multimedia texts via RCS
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Some modern airports REQUIRE pilots to use auto landing if their plane supports it. I know because I have a friend who is a commercial pilot and they don't like flying those routes because it is boring. Most airports let the pilots fly manually if they want.
Well, I did not know that.

Are there any sources where I can read more? I know Google fought a lot over similar issues and eventually withdrew their hardware from China.

Also, the Chinese are building a citizen scoring card system, that will rate your standing with the government from birth to death.
Ever seen the movie Idiocracy? I feel like society is becoming more and more like that. Laws like these are being passed and people are too numb to care.
With regards to Classics, the "You're probably using the wrong dictionary" blog post at http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary was probably the most interesting pieces I've read on HN.
Since we're talking about space, I am wondering when some nation can build a rotating space station.

Null-gravity is nice to play in, and some null-g research is necessary. But to work, and operate normally, null-g sucks. Especially if you need to handle fluids.

And if you need to do an emergency surgery in space, then dealing with floating blood is disgusting and biologically hazardous. As well as dealing with used surgical tools that can float around.

I would rather live in a centrifuge space station, and go to the null-g zone to conduct my work research.

It's interesting how in all scifi movies, all the spacecraft have an artificial gravity.

It's too bad China's proposed space station, will not break new ground, and have a rotating space station. They would need to spend much more money on designing and building it, than what they are willing to spend.
Who would have standing to bring a suit against the legality of an autonomous ai led Corp?
not for those ten potential roommates it's not. :)

Is it really rational to reject those 10 roommates for no good reason to avoid the 1 in a million hellish roommates?
But when you need to rebuild your container image, how do you make sure it builds in the same way? Nix imho is perfect for building reproducible containers, which you can then run on a minimal install of an OS with a larger ecosystem (or just GKE/EKS) to find & fix crippling bugs before you run into them.
i think you’re missing my point - i am not the west, i don’t like the way things are unfolding in “the west”. i’m not trying to say the west is better, or right. all i am saying is this - china is wrong.
you're right, while trying to open the eyes of the older poster, I actually closed mine :-( oops
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Huh, as I started reading I was thinking "I've had some pretty bad roommates, I wonder if this is worse." About a quarter of the way through I realized this is way worse.

About three quarters of the way through I was filled with dread as I was pretty sure it wasn't going to end well.

Excellent writing..
He's blaming the Swiss for their own actions
Dart as a language is great. My biggest complaint for dart team is that they have abandoned Polymer Dart. For web we have now Angular which is overkill for small to medium non-CRUD apps or dart:html which is like jQuery with types, just a little bit to low level.
I don't get what is the issue on requiring a "global" installation to be added to $PATH, a lot of other tools ask for that during installation and it's by far the safest way to do it.
There are no top tier schools in Canada. That's one of the problems. There's no Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Brown, Duke, Chicago, Columbia, Penn, CIT, Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, et al.

Canada's few top tier schools, are second tier schools in the US, barely. Canada has only a few schools that compare to the University of Virginia, UNC or Michigan. The US has dozens of schools like that, eg: USC, UCLA, Florida, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, Tulane, Pepperdine, Northeastern, Georgia, Boston, GIT, BC, NYU, Tufts, Wake Forest, Wisconsin Madison, Texas, Villanova, Penn State, Ohio State etc.

A bunch of those second tier schools cost $9k to $12k per year in-state tuition + fees. UNC is $9k, Florida is $6k. A four year degree will get you a $85k to $100k per year career as an engineer. You can pay for half of your tuition cost before you graduate with part-time work.

You can go to Berkely for $14k in-state. A degree from there in something of value in engineering, and you can write your ticket. You can easily pay off your education in a few years, and have an elite career that pays a top 3% income.
It's not even funny anymore
It's not even funny anymore. It would be good for them to learn from their past mistakes, like IE and ActiveDesktop had basically the same security problems - that was fixed with WinXP and IE6, now with Win10 and Edge they are back in WinME and IE 5.5 days http://www.19216811.co
Attempts at this type of legislation make me almost irrationally angry.

This is a quote from the article that the PIA post linked to (translated from Swedish by Google so wording may be slightly off):

"Today there is an organized online piracy that has major consequences for the whole community. Therefore, it is good that the punishment crimes for these crimes have been overlooked as the sanction is proportional to the seriousness of the crime"

I just fail to understand how someone causing a multi-million/billion dollar media corporation to lose some money is a crime so serious that that person should be imprisoned for up to six years.
* Phone messangers (e.g. Signal, Viber etc.)
* Discord, Slack - irc-like messangers
* Mastodon, Diaspora, Minds - free and federated social networks.

Honestly, facebook has nothing special about it other than "people are on it".

> people are going to have to accept that it is a primary form of communication this day and age

What a ridiculous statement.
The main pathway for opioid addiction is surgery. Doctors who prescribed the drugs can also prescribe an end to it too.

Simplistic yes, but such a drug could prevent a lot of harm.

Considering how much the mainstream dialogue is about illicit drugs its probably time to start talking about the far more common addictions and associated problems.
Can we attach a few of these units together, like 10 units, and then spin them up to create a rotating space station?
Finally somebody does this. Intentionality has always been neglected by intelligence theory, but it's quite important, it's what make human human.
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> and removes a whole area which people waste a lot of time on (bikeshedding formatting issues).

Interestingly enough, I've never seen people bikeshed about code formating in a project using a style formater even if it is configurable. But everytime Go is talked about here on HN, there are many people complaining about gofmt not being configurable …
>tezos is a full fledged Eth competitor

This is inaccurate
Another thing I'd bring to the table is switching from nuclear power to renewable energy, which is not sustainable long term IMO. Would make sense if it was coal, but dropping nuclear sends a bad message to fusion research.
I don't understand your use of "monitor" here. Banks by their very nature "monitor" your financial details, what else are they going to be doing?

Swiss banks will routinely refuse to honour legal requests for information from international law enforcement, e.g from 3rd world countries investigating their own corrupt politicians.
Please include the kind of websites you want to build.
I wouldn't go that far.

There are a lot of options for anaesthesia, and many of them are not opioids. For example, there is a whole set of
halogenated ethers like sevoflurane and isoflurane (the most typical inhaled anesthetics). Their chemical structures and mechanisms of action are very different from opioids, so the vaccine-produced antibodies would not recognise or react with them. This is true for many of the other options (benzos, ketamine, even xenon gas).

That said, opioids are useful. They are very good analgesics (pain relievers) and can be used as anesthesia in certain situations, like cardiovascular patients. However, for most people in most situations, there are other non-opioid options.
Snap stock plummets after Kylie Jenner declares Snapchat dead
Interesting how both now and 'then' Tesla is still in the top stories.
Looks like a shitpost, by someone purporting to be a psychopath.
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Are you serious? So no tenants rights at all? Just because of an incredibly rare and unique situation?
I reclude myself and meditate until I start looking at the good things I still got and the good things that can come instead of the bad ones that happened. I force myself into feeling better not by forgetting what happened but by painfully decide to.
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Excellent to see this. My X230 should arrive next week and I will give this a try. I haven't flashed a BIOS like this before so every high-quality write-up like this helps me understand some things to watch out for.
The problem is that bitcoin is used by less than 0.03% of the people in the world. Bitcoin energy spenditure is proportional to demand for bitcoin and we should expect mining costs to go up drastically if Bitcoin becomes more popular. (Mining costs are proportional to mining rewards, which in turn is proportional to prices, which are a function of demand).
Support is now baked into most browsers for Web components!
Also Polymer Lit-HTML and HyperHTML leverage JS Template Literals to natively update the DOM as fast or faster than virtual DOM using much less resource.
Why would a project have both npm and yarn, or bower, webpack and gulp?
I'm not surprised when I see on swedish news how a pedophile gets 3-4 years for molesting hundreds of children and a bank robber gets 5-8 years for not hurting a single person but stealing millions.

It's a long standing dark gag here that financial crime is being treated much worse than violent crime.
> I just lived for my last semester of undergrad with two people like this

Did you even read the article?
Wow. I love hearing about the persistence under those conditions. Reminds me a bit of what I've heard of Cuba, a semi-sneakernet setup.
Sun? No, although summer here is amazing and bright and beautiful you'll have to live 3 months with the darkness (even here in Stockholm, wake up in the dark, go to work with the sun rising and get out of work in pitch dark when there's no snow).

Female partner? You can be lucky, sex is easy to come but relationships are much harder, there's a reason why "The Swedish Theory of Love" exists, people here are very autonomous, partnership is something very fluid and can crumble for things you'd probably linger more in other societies.

Apartment for rent... Well... I can definitely say this is not easy nor cheap.
But what if Santa is able to convert all that heat into toys...
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This is an interesting comment and made me consider various scenarios and situations.

For one instance, 'Right to Live' would mean we can eat/use animal products anymore - but what about plants then? If you listen to the RadioLab episode Smart Plants, who knows what will be discovered about them in the future.
And for most of humanity, most cultures have survived on animal consumption and animal products. Also, would these laws be enforceable on animals too? How would you feed predators and omnivores?

But what about instead of instead of specific rights like those afforded to people, we adopt more general 'kindness' rights to other living beings. For instance; the right of any animal to not being tortured, the right of kept animals to not be subjected to reasonable sized spaces(however that might be determined), the right of kept animals to medical treatment, the right of kept animals to the food it would be consuming in nature, ect.

Not sure how this would all be controlled and enforced(or even how this applies to current animal rights laws), but interesting to think about.
I think the main issue is the size required to do this in order not to spin something at a ridiculous speed.
This is good at first look. Because it seems to be straightforward and carefully design. I like the aesthetic and choice of using data attributes being part of the HTML standard as directives to apply the framework.

One criticism I have relates to The syntax for denoting action methods. Did you agonize over the choice of syntax uses hash and implication? E.g.

click->hello#greet

All the same this careful choice shows the effort you put into the framework . I’m just not sure this particular choice is to my taste nor works with regard to being consistent with the rest of the syntactic choices you have made.

Interested to hear thoughts of others in a discussion about this.
Those orbital numbers are sobering, but there may still be plenty of reason to investigate a launch mechanism where the "fuel" comes from an external source.

I haven't run the numbers, but a quick look at typical delta-V budgets [1] (which calculate atmospheric losses as 1.5 to 2 km/s of delta-v), if one could accelerate something fast enough that it escapes most of Earth's atmosphere (and only then burn for orbital velocity), you'd be saving ~17 to 20% on the delta-v requirements. Due to the nature of the Tsiolkovsky equation, that could be a very substantial saving.

That said, I'm also wondering why a centrifuge would be better than say, some kind of low pressure tube / rail, but I'm sure these guys have done their maths and believe in it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget
> I beat them within an inch of their life and then drove them to the hospital.

Um what? You don't understand why the women in this article didn't beat up the larger man, once who had a knife?
If you want to start working, and have the skills to do it, just start working! You could finish your entire cs degree part-time for less than the cost of one semester at Berkeley, via university of London (https://london.ac.uk/courses/computing-and-information-syste...)
My daughter did this, started working at the age of 19 as a software developer, and is finishing her degree part-time. She should graduate when she’s 24, by which time she’ll have 5 years full-time experience (and five years of earning a salary)
Feel free to message me if you have any questions.

EDIT: we are in the Bay Area too btw. And the above would NOT apply if, for example, you wanted to go on and do a PhD.
To be fair, you're not cutting someone open with (only) codine or something like that either.
A master must prove his worth.
Just because you are senior people will not do what you want them to do.

Building a team of noobs takes a lot of work. That kind of work, I'll only put in a startup where I've ownership.
No it is not. Read about tezos and then come back.
If you feel this is a lazy request please let me know, but could you point me to the source code for using native JS string templates to do Dom updating that achieve similar things to Virtual DOM?
> They would be completely illegal if we worried more about safety than about cost-benefit ratios.

If we worried about safety, there would be much, much less drivers on the road.

See, society have decided that practically every adult is perfectly capable of controlling a several thousand pound piece of metal while practical evidence points to somewhere else: some or even most people drive so badly they shouldn't be doing so.

We build a world where the motorist rules and we are paying for this with a huge amount of dead and disabled people. Is it truly worth it? Could we live another way (sure, once we did, but we want to do better now)? Transit and such is mostly sold on the merits of climate change these days and noone dares to say this: you should be on transit because you can't drive.
EU member states will, in future.

Articles 30 and 31 of the Fourth AML Directive, Directive (EU) 2015/849 [1], mandate that member states set up a register (= database) with BOs of all corporations and legal entities within their jurisdiction. All legal entities are required to report their BOs into this registry.

It's not accessible to the public in the sense that anyone can anyonymously look up data, but among other things, it's open to "any person or organisation that can demonstrate a legitimate interest."

[1] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A3...
> In countries where university are cheaper nobody bats an eye at someone going through the cycles just for the sake of it, purely to learn interesting things.

We do. Every year discovering yourself is a year you're not productive. Those cheaper university fees come from taxes which you need employed people to pay. I'd argue the US system is fairer: people who enjoy university education pay for it. In Europe, people who got in trade and never thought about getting a university degree are paying for those for get them.
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> It's interesting how in all scifi movies, all the spacecraft have an artificial gravity.

Possibly related to the fact that all film studios are subject to gravity.
There seems to be a bug, I can see pages of Feb 30, 31 - https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2017-02-31
Just a small off-topic comment: the Swiss Franc is not as stable as you think. For example, it used to be pegged (as in, CHF 1 was supposed to be worth EUR 1.2), but in recent history the Swiss Central Bank decided to unpeg the CHF to EUR, seemingly out of the blue.

Some reading:
- https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/01/e...
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-franc-shock/three-y...
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You're right, I guess letting some unknown entity use my stuff just feels weird. Money is the perfect medium for impersonal exchange of goods and services.