skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We" absolutely are ignoring their environment in the USA at least. People cannot even access healthcare here without additional, significant financial stress and burden. My entire family and the strong majority of my region and a general majority overall oppose the policies and systems that would give someone like me a life and future. Even seeing how it's gone for me my family refuses to support social systems and offer help to those in need. It's "stealing my money" to them and ruined our relationships seeing how selfish they are turning their back on me AND society.

I know the causes of my issues, there are at a minimum mitigations available but I can't BUY them because everything here is a business and competition and someone else took me out of the race by taking lots of money to end my capacity to compete (poor medical intervention) and I was left holding all the additional baggage with no help. I have friends who suffered catastrophes living in countries who don't think social systems are evil, and they had the tools to heal as much as possible and improve their lives and be able to contribute to the whole again. I wasn't afforded that opportunity and it's been a constant downhill slide.

Pardon the tone and it is not directed at you, it just infuriates me that American society ignores such important things and once someone is not able to WIN in the Thunderdome they are cast aside and/or expected to live with little to nothing and even more needs, while it continues focusing on pushing what are in my view largely ineffective, but very profitable "interventions". I find the predilection for painting over damage in this country over restoring/shoring up someone's foundation to be maddening.
Inching closer to a mainstream hotel brand. Can't complain about more competition, assuming it's zoned properly.
Bottle[0], Dataset[1], and pipenv[3].

With those three tools I can create a web app with basic functionality with few lines of code, like a prototype. For example:

from datetime import datetime
from bottle import get, post, request, run, template, redirect
import dataset

db = dataset.connect('sqlite:///database.sqlite')
entries_table = db['entries']

@get('/')
def show_entries():
entries = entries_table.all()
entries_sorted = sorted(entries, reverse=True)
return template('entries', entries=entries_sorted)

@post('/add')
def add_entry()
entry = request.forms.get('entry')
entries_table.insert(dict(
text=entry,
created_by=datatime.utcnow(),
))
return redirect('/')

run(reloader=True, debug=True)

- [0] https://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/

- [1] https://dataset.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

- [3] https://docs.pipenv.org/

Edit: formatting.
Fort Worth and Albuquerque give them jobs to clean up streets. In Fort Worth, they pay $10 per hour and provide housing. This would be similar - and a good idea, I think.
If they use one that can pass through you harmlessly most of it will probably also pass through the device wasting energy.
Microsoft launches new Surface Pro and accessories for India
Consider the case where f is an elementary function of one variable and you know that its slope between any two points is at most k and at least -k. And suppose you want an upper bound on f(0) but you know the values of f(-2) and f(3). Then f(0) <= f(-2) + 2 * k and f(0) <= f(3) + 3 * k. Taking the minimum of these two right-hand sides leads to a formula analogous to the one for U(x) that you're asking about (with the norm || x - x_i || taking the place of |0 - (-2)| and |0 - 3| in our example).
The Unofficial Hacker News FAQ
Add support for WebAssembly as target platform for Qt
I bought one ETH last fall that Coinbase took away from my account and has been holding hostage from me for 8 months. Apparently my Credit Card expiration date was not correct or something, but they successfully took my money... and show that I have no crypto either. Their support has been a nightmare. I'm really excited to move away from Coinbase to Robinhood as soon as possible.
VCs have their own investors (LPs) that they have to justify every investment to, particularly when they fail.

That means VCs are generally cowardly, investing only in startups that already appear to be successful in some way. Usually this means that either the founders are prestigious (pedigree) or the startup is already taking off (traction).

I'll assume you don't have pedigree, which means you only have the traction avenue open to you. This might look like building the first version(s) yourself, attracting a large number of users/developers, and then bootstrapping and/or raising money.
If imperfect dice including one with an extra 3 were found in a big heap, mightn't that be because they were deemed inferior dice unworthy of play? Maybe the local constabulary went around to all the gambling dens, and confiscated & buried all the crooked dice.
What's a non-single-use straw?
The Rust ecosystem and build system, is designed to prevent this. If you're using a library and want to code to keep compiling in 10 years, you can (and should) just lock the dependencies.

Since the libraries are all mirrored on crates.io and, by design, cannot be removed once they are published, you should be good, at least until the day the owners of crates.io stop being able to pay the server costs.

I believe that you can also host local mirrors, but I haven't checked that.
A nice way for people to filter out, or even limit themselves to a more luxury option on the service.

You could see yourself never using it, or using it a lot, granted your circumstances or needs
No, he did not get scammed, he became involved in a scam.
>You didn't mention "Kazakh famine of 1919", you mentioned "Russians, Ukrainians and Kazakhs" in reply to my posts about Nazis being classed as victims by the The Black Book Of Communism.

And you replied with "they deserved it". Obviously, noone can expect a commie sympathiser to actually know, or care, who was slaughtered by commies and when. But people who do not want to end up at the next Nuremberg trial consder collective responsibility to be a little bit out of fashion these days.

> You were a Soviet citizen in 1919? Because that's the only way you know any better than I do.

There was no Soviet Union in 1919. It would logically follow, though, that there are some Russian citizens who were alive in 1919 among my ancestors. They told stories.

> What part of the USSR are you from anyway? You seem quite cagey about it, despite thinking being born in some corner of the largest state on Earth 27+ years ago somehow wins you an argument by default.

I didn't know thjat not answering a question that was never asked is being cagey. Why don't you straight out asdk what my ethnicity is?

Also, yes, having first-hand experience does win some arguments with ignorant kids easily.

> So you want to make treatment of Jews part of your Naziism is better than Communism argument too?

It is you who reduces everything to treatment of Jews.

> Then, for the second time of asking, explain how your life would have been improved by your country being under Nazi occupation rather than living under Communism.

Not everything in life is about you.

> Feel free to quote anything I've written that's even remotely close to the ballpark of anything even approaching that.

Umm, any of your messages in this thread? Because that's exactly what you have been writing.

> This from someone who could be doing literally anything on the internet, and chooses to spend time minimizing the number of people killed by the Nazis - direct quote from you: "[the Nazis] killed far fewer people" - which is exactly what Holocaust deniers do.

Actually, Holocaust deniers go on and on that nothing happened, and if something happened it was very minor, and if anyone got killed, they surely deserved it. Which is exactly your line ofd reasoning here. Even applied to at least hundreds of thuosands of people killed before there even were any nazis in existence.

Also, apparently sometimes one does need to point out obvious and commonly accepted truths. Like how even the low-end estimate from those critics of The Black Book that you mention put the number of victims of communism at ~3 times that of nazis. Granbted, commies had more time to go at it.

> You should probably clarify this statement, because it sounds like you're justifying people becoming anti-Semites. Are you?

As nicely as it wuild've fed your persecution complex, no, they would not take me, if you knowq what I mean.
You can download it. It's just Google's weird UI. Click on "more spreadsheets", then go into the folder called startups or whatever, then the fintech folder, then click on the fintech spreadsheet once, then the '3 dots' at the top and "Make a copy" and it'll copy the file to your own Drive where you can download or edit to your heart's content.
This is a great list. Kudos to the author.
I noticed this too, it almost makes it seem redundant. 11.5 years from now we're going to improve something. Oh yeah? Imagine if someone told you they planned to quit smoking in 10 years? haha ok
Last time i was in Italy, I got charged for a bag, so they're still also doing that it seems.
Based on history what you've said is true. This feels slightly different though. I feel that Facebook and the other big tech companies are more self-aware and have made bold and smart acquisitions (Instagram and WhatsApp) to stave off obsolescence. It feels like they've built a nice walled garden effectively now. Anecdotally in other parts of the world Facebook is "the internet".

Yet similar services like AOL, Friendster, and Myspace were once big and are no longer what they were. I have no idea what will possibly supersede Facebook but I bet it will be something out of left field.
In theory, maybe. But it's super complicated

- Plastics really don't mix well. Even trace amount of a different polymer (those numbers in the bottom) will destroy the strength of a batch of plastic (there is research in this though)
- Recycling is expensive and in an economic battle against new stock (carbon tax?).

Cleaving the bonds to make diesel or feedstock is another option to "recycle" polymers (I dunno why it's not done. energy intensive wrt to oil? Dirty?)

Plastics are amazing... but we really should stop using them altogether except for fringe no alternative cases.

P.S. turns out plastics are bio-degradable by some tough organisms. So there's hope.
Fallacy: metawhataboutism

metawhataboutism: when hypocrisy is pointed out scream "whataboutism". It sounds like a fancy term and shuts down the other side pretty well.
"such beliefs didn't play a role in playing other games..."

Source?
Slyme is shutting down
Not sure whether it's influenced by your existing karma. My perception (with sample size of one) is that when my karma was lower I accrued at closer to 1:1, whereas now definitely not accruing at 1:1.
if you can program, you can read maths (understanding its purpose is a different issue)

this formula defines a function U(x). This means that it gives a recipe that takes a number x and produces a number U(x). The recipe depends on an already prepared set of ingredients: a set of numbers x1, x2, ..., xt, k, and another function f. Now, given a number x, to compute U(x), you first compute all the numbers f(xi)-k*|x-xi|, and then you pick the smallest one. This smallest value is then U(x).

The graph below the formula displays its interpretation. The graph of the function f is the red curve, the points (xi, f(xi)) are the black dots, and U(x) is in green.
It's nice to see a discussion of AI risk that addresses concrete scenarios. A lot of the forecasted doom (in other reports) resorts to handwavy arguments, but rarely goes into specifics. The examples they've given[0] seem plausible enough to me (except the persuasive ads one).

[0]: Persuasive ads, vulnerability discovery and exploitation, hacking robots (this one is only tangentially AI related), and AI-augmented surveillance.
To me the homes, people and their experiences in the video feel artificial. Thus the whole video makes me strangely uncomfortable, even though I am probably in the target audience.
Indeed, personally I just purchased the Onyx Boox Max 2, a 13 inches e-ink tablet running Android (6.0). quite expensive (some will say far too expensive if compared to iPad pro, but keep in mind its niche market, small company, R&D).
PDF is quite well support, and now we start seeing Android apps with special mode for e-ink (Librera).
I suspect we'll see the market for reusable straws increase in Taiwan.
In general true, but there are a certain few “lightning rod” topics for which there is only a limited set of HNCorrect opinions. No matter how well written/sourced/argued your comment is, if it goes against the group belief it will be buried. I just avoid these topics altogether now—it’s not worth the time spent writing.

On the other hand, in general I don’t care about the occasional wave of downvotes. They’re fake internet points—-no reason to tie your HN karma to any measure of self worth. Literally anything can and will get down-votes here. Hell, just yesterday I wrote a long-ish story about some ethical issues I encountered as an engineer. No arguments or judgment passing or controversial stands—just a “here’s a little snippet of my career” and it got a couple downvotes. No need to sweat them. The advice to not complain in-thread about downvotes and not attack/question your downvoters is good advice. It’s pointless because everything, including uncontroversial comments, high quality comments, correct, incorrect—-they all get a few downs.
Self-driving cars will be in wide use long before every case is solved. There's lots of money to be made with autonomy that only works on well-maintained roads in regions with favourable climate.
Somethings to note:

-Robinhood is not allowing you to transfer in crypto from outside.

-Robinhood does allow you to transfer crypto out but you have to go through extra verification steps.

See:
https://ibb.co/dHNENc

The listing of so many altcoins in the robinhood app (monero, zcash, etc) plus it’s low fees makes buying on altcoin exchanges that only accept crypto like binance a lot less attractive. No longer will users have to buy $ltc/$eth on coinbase/gdax then transfer to another exchange to buy altcoins.

This will have a big impact on the crypto ecosystem. The gauntlet has been thrown down for coinbase.

Edit: my bad. I got confused by the app update, Robinhood are just displaying tracking data for alts :

https://ibb.co/noPN8H
IDx – transforming healthcare by developing AI to detect disease in primary care
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilting_at_windmills

"The phrase ... may also connote an importune, unfounded, and vain effort against adversaries real or imagined for a vain goal."
The parent comment is telling.

I agree; it is an abdication of our responsibilities to our communities (Internet, countries, world) to say the current political situation, including the lack of intelligent and productive interaction, is not our problem and to abandon the field. Hacker News is an ideal community to develop technology and policies that would make political discussion work, and then which could be duplicated elsewhere (and arguably many people here are directly responsible for the currently poor performance of online communities in this regard). Rather than give up, people at HN are accustomed to taking on problems that others assume are intractable, and are comfortable and flexible enough for experimentation. Imagine the effect success would have on the world - is there any app that would have a bigger impact?

At the same time, the unfounded assertions and exaggerations ("horrible", "aggressive censorship", "unabashedly", etc.) in the parent are, IMHO, the kind of communication that causes political discussion to fail.
Why? It's pretty simple, if we computerize everything a future AI is going to have more leverage over the world. If you believe Cory Doctorow when he says that everything is a computer, then everything is vulnerable to future AI.
... we forget.

Glad to know you're helping bring down the average though
And Robinhood becomes even more of a gambling app than it already was. This is not investing.

EDIT:
Sure, you can call it investing. But I would say it isn't sound investing.
There was a post on here awhile ago[0] about using loaded dice to cheat at Settler of Catan. All the benefit goes to the person who knows the bias.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15921322
I think you've got it backwards.

Pretty sure Larry and Sergei don't give a rat's ass about advertisement, they just want to do cool tech (cf investment in AI and self driving cars, among many many other things).

Advertisement revenue is a mean to do all this stuff.
The codes have been in effect for less than a month.
No. Dead reckoning is using relative measurements. Your algorithm is irrelevant.
Oh wow, that's a good one! My favorite is being able to change the nav color (`topcolor`). I changed it to the purple brand color from our startup [1].

[1]: https://canny.io
Grainger sells 1L bottles of saline for $12.15. Bags are about the same price elsewhere on the internet. One thing I'm wondering is if the $200 (or $2000) also includes the labor to set it up and the consumables that go along with the IV.
Airbnb is trying to make more money by offering experiences (events that generally seem very expensive to me) and moving to a more high-end branding. If I open the website I mostly see the more exclusive places first.

I think this opens opportunities at the bottom. A website that focusses on functionality and cheaper rooms. The public is now familiar with the concept. Some people do not want to pay above hotel prices to stay somewhere for the night only. They are looking for a simple, clean and cheap bed. I am one of those.
The Cadillac CT6 Review: Super Cruise Is a Game-Changer
I can't even get to that page as it times out as well.

EDIT: I opened the original link in incognito mode and the page seemed to load fine.
Oh yes, some brought up the homeless. Not to get into it too much. Denver is freaking sketchy. Every few months a gang would kill someone outside my LoDo offices, or someone would show up looking for their ex armed and we would have a lock down. Homeless are rampant. Half real homeless, half young vagabond. It is usually ultra nice, then next block I'd feel the need to hide my watch. Austin, I bike to work every day. I walk around at night every day. Sure there are clusters, like under 35.. but I walk my dog 7 miles on weekends all through down town. Something I'd never ever do in Denver.

Denver has always been an ultra sketchy town, with a hard drug problem. Just look at the Gang statistics for Aurora. If anything Denver has been getting better, but the difference is 10 years ago you would avoid down town at all costs. Now you want to buy a run down house for 700k.

Though if you can find work in Boulder or Fort Collins, grab it. Denver, avoid.
It's an interesting point that he thinks the site would not take off if he launched it today, compared to when it started in 1998.

Similar to the early adopters of Instagram who built huge followings simply because they were there first. Anyone starting today has to face a huge headwind: the content algorithms.

Are there other examples of vestigial platforms that are leftover successes from before?

Email newsletters are the last outpost of unfiltered connection - I shudder to think of what happens when personal email dips below 100% organic reach.
My first reaction too. I didn't think 2030 was particularly ambitious.
It is useful for very small devices where you don't want to ship a bigger C++ lib
I have to thank you for bringing this to my attention!

Although I have not seen any reports of keepasstouch being compromised, it is true that it is not open source ... I had meant to download minikeepass, which is. I've remedied the problem. 2FA keeps me pretty safe on most of my important accounts, but I have still changed pw's on many accounts thanks to your comment. Much appreciated!
I believe you're correct
Single Page Apps with Vue.js and Flask: State Management with Vuex
What is plastic? PE, PTFE,

There are microorganisms that eat certain polymers (PE), but I don't think anything will ever eat PTFE (teflon)

I'd bet that switching away from teflon frying pans you'll help the environment more than getting rid of a life time of PE bags. F chemistry is super nasty
So you can't sell your crypto there? Where is all this bitcoin coming from then? Sounds like robinhood is hoping for a huge disparity, so they can dump what they have for better prices.
I would imagine that's different because you have to be a member to buy it. Presumably if they find out that you are selling individual items from a larger set they'll revoke your membership.
If you look at the list of homes listed, I wouldn't say they are above hotel price at all.
Last I knew, the US military was working hard on this problem. Against 'near-peer' adversaries (e.g., China as opposed to ISIL), they need to function when communication networks are shut down.
U(x) starts by evaluating f(x), but instead of checking for every value of x, it only checks certain values x1, x2, x3... xt. Then U(x) gives an upper bound for what f(x) might be for any x between the ones you actually calculated. Take the difference between any x and the nearest xi for which you know f(xi), and multiply it by the maximum possible slope. Add that to f(xi), and you have the upper bound for how high f(x) might be.
This is definitely good for society.
No fees, who cares?
Node v9.6.0 (Current)
Echo is a builtin; you won't see that in the process list (not sure this method doesn't have a different weakness).
For metrics units users, that's 9-14 kg.
My personal opinion is that the root cause of the issue is the ability of a language pacakge manager to mess with system files at all (i.e. do a global install of anything). Shards, the crystal package manager makes the sensible design decision to only install libraries into `$PWD/lib` and binaries into `$PWD/bin`. Everything is local only to your project. If you want a binary on your PATH, you can create an installation method that works for your commandline tool's specific usecase. Hopefully a distro/homebrew package.

I wrote about this in longer form here: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/3328#issuecomme....
This "documentary" is a defamatory hit job by someone who (rightfully or wrongfully) was on the receiving end of a patent infringement suit. It needs to go away. There is much more serious discussions that need be had about the patent system than the theories and falsities raised by this guy.

The judges and other professionals working in the district are just that--professionals. There is no secret cabal of lawyers conspiring to screw tech companies there. The judges and courts are not biased against defendants and trying to screw them.

There may be a tendency of to protect the district (e.g., avoid transfers of cases out), since the judges see themselves as stewards of the community in which they serve. But that has no bearing on the merits of the case or who wins. And recent changes in the law have significantly mitigated this. The judges are very knowledgeable at patent law, being very experienced in the domain.

Source: Am a lawyer that has practiced over a decade there, represented both sides of the "v.", also appears in numerous other courts around the country, and has obtained multiple decisions from different EDTX judges forcing patent trolls to pay my clients' attorneys' fees for frivolous lawsuits.