skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By rationally I actually meant realistically. The negative engine is over estimating the risk. So you may take a negative thought to its logical conclusion and be depressed but you've forgotten to weight the likelihood of that outcome. And also that the input premise is likely false e.g. you are not a horrible person for example. Or you always do things wrong.
If I open a store next to you and sell things cheaper (or give them away), I'm depriving you of the opportunity to profit?
This is exactly what I thought. Could it be that their results are confounded by a mix of rats for which the induced state of helplessness results in depression and some other rats for which this resulted in enlightenment of sorts.
>>Network effects almost by definition often create a better user experience. For example, Facebook has a network effect in that all your friends are there. The reason that’s so powerful is you actually want to join a network where your friends are.

This thinking is backwards. You’re not there because you want to be there, you’re there simply because your friends are there and if you’re not, you’re left out. It’s not the platform that pulls, friends on the platform pull.
In Rome, I bought 1.20 euro for a espresso, and 2.0 for a cappuccino, right smack in the middle of the city near the train station.

In Albania, it is the 0.80 for a medium-good espresso (Lavazza or Illy), and 1.20 to 1.50 for a cappuccino.

In Barcelona, a glass of wine varied between 2.5. and 3 euros. I never paid more than that. In the US? 12-15 (In NYC at least).

Also, in NYC, you can't buy a bottle of water for $1, in most places, while in supermarkets in Spain was about 0.50 or 0.60

So, yeah, Americans in general pay twice as much for beverages.
In this case, we aren't feeding people. We're feeding cows.

We're also running into frequent water crises where politicians ask people to shower less while we dump 90% of the state's water on the ground.
A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers–Again
Here's what happens when a Blackhawk hits one with it's rotor: https://petapixel.com/2018/01/02/dji-drone-collided-us-army-...

How much do you think that cost to replace? I love my drone as much as the next guy, but someone who flies one next to a helicopter with people in it needs to go to jail.

Edit: Here's a main rotor for an R-44 for $47,000... https://m.ebay.com/itm/R44-Robinson-Helicopter-Main-Rotor-Bl...
How can a corporation whose raison d'être is profits be trusted with being in a monopolistic situation?

Sure Amazons power will evaporate as soon as it's abused just like Intels, Microsofts and Dow Chemicals. History tells us this isn't the case.
> Furthermore, all large countries, like Britain, France and Germany, engage in this kind of espionage against "friendly" countries

Why is this tolerated? Is it, perhaps that surveillance a country cannot legally conduct internally is conducted by its "friends", sometimes resulting in relevant information being shared with its own intelligence services?
Too late to EDIT: What I meant to say was: and WITH Virtualization
Helicopters are slow, and they probably didn't have the rotor speed needed to yank the collective.

Hitting a 2kg drone would result in expensive repairs, e.g. $30K for replacement rotor blades and you still might crash.

I probably would have taken the hit but I'm much better off than the average R22 pilot who often operate or razor thin margins.

That said; my bet is that there was no drone. My guess is the student made a small mistake, the teacher took over and made a bigger mistake, and both want to keep their jobs/future carers. Drones make an easy target to lie about and are hated anyway. Not to say there are no irresponsible drone pilots, just currently I think it's more likely heli-pilot error at this stage. My hope is the GPS tracking in the phantom well let us know for sure.
“Colossus: The Forbin Project” Ending (1970)
And from a veterinarian in Central America for less than $5 a gram. Is there a difference between "medical grade" and what is used for animals?
Did retail ever deserve to live anyway? What kind of life and satisfaction does one get by selling someone else's work? It's easy, low skill and is just plain 'busy work'. Perhaps we are entering the golden age where one's worth is more closely related to the value they add to other peoples lives through their real work as human beings - not as middle men (middle people?) The trades for example are thriving. The food industry is burgeoning. Tourism is growing.Good riddance to mind numbing dehumanizing work - the assembly line, the stock clerk, the delivery person.
Why do people let keys lie around on storage? A smartcard is dirt cheap and comes even including reader in all shapes and sizes. There are no excuses.
BeOS was trying to disrupt the operating system market, so he was up against other programmers on their home turf. That example doesn't refute my thesis.

I hadn't heard of Shai Agassi before. He seems a better counter-example, although from his Wikipedia page it sounds like he went from getting a BSc in CS directly into 'entrepreneurship' and holding executive positions at various firms. I don't see anything in the way of an actual career writing software first, like Bezos had, not even a few years.

Jonathan Bulkeley doesn't have a Wikipedia page but from what I found he has a BA from Yale and never really tried to disrupt anything? Maybe I am missing something about his story.

Of course building a business is hard. I'm doing it at the moment so I'm well aware of that! I am not suggesting that merely knowing programming magically grants guaranteed success. But when you look at the type of people who are disrupting whole industries, at least in the sense the word is used, it invariably seems to be entrepreneurs who had some grasp of software or hardware engineering first.
Opinions about the law itself aside, I’m confused why this fact is consider r material.

If someone in the UK was arrested for having a gun would we write about a “British man serving time for something that’s legal in the US”?
The original studies on learned helplessness used dogs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness#Early_key...
> Amazon is notorious for tax shenannigans in Europe

There are a dozen nations in Europe that are notorious for intentionally encouraging tax shenannigans. What are you planning to do to the nice people of Ireland and Switzerland to correct that situation? Their extraordinary GDP per capita figures are directly related to said tax conditions.
We use FreeBSD in production (SaaS accounting/payroll app) as a load balancing proxy/web server (Nginx) and outgoing mail server (OpenSMTPD) because it's a stable, proven OS with sane defaults. Thanks to OpenBSD, we get an awesome firewall (PF) and dead simple OpenSMTPD mail server (total config is around 25 lines which gives us DKIM signing and PKI with no additional software).

At home, FreeBSD is used as a HTPC (Kodi), file server and backup box (it acts like a Time Machine for our Macs via netatalk and for Linux we use rsnapshot over NFS).
Labor Board Rules Google’s Firing of James Damore Was Legal
That's illegal? Are you serious?
Except your fork now prominently appears even after the PR is merged. However, I don't think Github has a way to see all your PRs.
Hey Chase!

Do you have plans to open source Watsi's universal healthcare delivery platform?
Correct, structural editing is about structure and not semantics. Paredit does help with the loop macro, it helps you write it in a structurally correct way based on the language's syntax rules.

Structural editors just make sure your code will parse, not that it is semantically correct. It doesn't know the meaning or behaviour of the loop macro, but it does know how to properly structure it so it can be parsed. And so it gives you ways to add, remove and restructure elements of your code such that it will always be valid for your language.

Lisp syntax is really simple, so yes, you don't need much out of your structural editor. Just make sure everything is balanced at all times and allow you to move symbols in and out of parenthesis, and change their order and nesting. That's all you need to guarantee proper structure of Lisp code.

Now, in Lisp, if you used a normal text editor, you'd quickly start to have wrongly balanced forms, you'd be annoyed at how you keep having to shuffle so many things around just because you want to now divide a whole form by 5 or change the order in which two things are performed. Using a structural editor will remove all these pains, and suddenly, its even easier to do these things in Lisp then it is in say Java. Whereas without structural editing, it was way easier in Java.

So Java + text editor = Never had issues structuring and restructuring code.

Lisp + text editor = Omg, I hate all the parenthesis and nesting and prefix notation because it makes structuring code painful.

Lisp + structural editing = Everything I found difficult with a text editor is now not only easy, I find that its even faster and easier to restructure the code then when I use Java with a text editor.

Java + structural editing = I don't know, because Eclipse, Netbeans and Idea do not provide structural editors for Java that I know off. I suspect it would not be as game changer as in Lisp, since java + text editor is already satisfactory.

Everyone who says that structural editing isn't useful, and what is way more useful is code refactoring tools is just missing the point. Code refactoring is useful, but in Lisp, so is structural editing. You could even debate it is more useful.

Different language have different pain points, and so require different tools to address. I agree, I'm not looking for a Java structural editor, but its also hard to go back to editing Java after having mastered structural editing of Lisp code. The same way that its painful to rename a variable in Lisp once you've done it in Java using a good code refactoring tool.
What 1A context? 1A says absolutely nothing whatsoever about your right to work for Google, or for Hobby Lobby.
As an ongoing FreeBSD user, a BSD user since the 1980s, and a Debian user since about 5 years ago I agree with this article in main sense. I might differ in details, but its an even handed and fair summary.
But why do those people not found companies like Amazon? When was the last time the CEOs of existing companies feared disruption by a firm founded by an accountant? Why was the United Launch Alliance apparently so helpless in the face of SpaceX despite ULA being made of experienced industry old hands and Musk having to literally teach himself rocket science as a first step?

many of these people also write software as part of their job, at a more-than-competent level

Really? Have you ever seen code written by mechanical engineers or accountants? I have! My experience is that an experienced programmer working inside a large enterprise will have a much firmer grasp of the business than the business-side people will have of software development.
> once the chain is up and running — will buy a thousand hamburgers or three

Like almost all dichotomies, it's a false dichotomy.

Most ICOs end up going up by 2x, but having the 1000x you described are very rare, plus ICOs going down in price are also not as frequent. Most ICOs stay in their price range.
> Should we really seek to regulate away hard-earned (and valuable!) advantages because they make it possible to abuse the position?

"Regulate away" is a nice expression. It implies that "regulate" is the same as "take away", which I believe is a false assumption.

No one wants to take away their success - however, if you already have powers approaching monopoly, society should absolutely remind you of the responsibilities that come with those powers - and if necessary force you to obey those responsibilities. Nothing else is what regulation is doing.

> Surely we should wait until they’re actually abusing it?

You don't wait with the fireproofing until the house is already burning either.

> As an aside, I can’t think of any advantage Amazon has that wouldn’t open up opportunities for a competitor should they start to abuse them.

It would take a long time until a competitor is actually there that could practically provide the same services. During that time, the damage is done.
They always have done this.

When the larger screens came out (from 3.5 to 4' to 4.7'), new apps had to support them as well.

Also, when iOS 7 was released it introduced major changes to the full screen layouts, and manny apps had to deal with it. (in order support both iOS 6, and 7).

So, nothing new
>I go to Amazon when I know what I want. I go to a store when I need staff to tell me what I want.

Bring your smartphone with you when you go to the store. That way after the staff tells you what you want, you can order it from amazon without leaving the store.
The article seems to be focused on Amazon's retail operations, but there may be a stronger case to be made against AWS.

While AWS makes it easy to store and process data, it is essentially distributing open-source software. You could argue that AWS is a more successful open-source company than Red Hat, or at least, it is poised to become so. And AWS mostly distributes OSS while others bear the cost of developing it.

I've spoken with executives at both Red Hat and Cloudera who say that, while they are experiencing growth on the public cloud, AWS gives very little energy back to open-source. In fact, they say AWS is killing infrastructure software, and it's doing whatever it can to move into apps.

That's a much more serious charge than complaining about the societal effects of mom-and-pop shops dying, because in this case, AWS is using a platform they dominate to extend their power into new products and lines of business. Much as Microsoft used Windows to dominate word-processing and other apps, and as Google used search to dominate things like product search.

Given that the repercussions of AWS killing innovation in infrastructure software could have a huge effect on the evolution of tech and business in the U.S., I think this is an issue to be taken seriously.
Connecting directly to the remote (non-ISP) mailserver with TLS shouldn't reveal any message contents.

Relaying via the ISP's mail server though (even with TLS) seems like it would disclose the message contents.
The alternative is one-shot set-and-forget developers that just dump software on a marketplace/store somewhere and ignore whatever happens next. (i.e. Android)
Part of the goal of CBT is to see yourself and your thoughts from the perspective of a detached, but curious, observer. Recognizing that you're an animal and that you have patterns to your thinking can help you build self-compassion.

It's an ongoing process though. The key is not to engage so much with the thoughts themselves or their implications but in the processes that arrive at those thoughts which cause so much pain. Recognizing the pattern well enough that you're able to step back and say "Ahhhh, I'm in that mood again."
Many a true word spoken in jest. Damn.
I love the art Nintendo produces and the company has been an integral part of my childhood, but I find their stance on piracy to be some of the most detestable in the industry.

Fuck them for sending some poor guy to prison for modifying hardware he owned. Almost makes you want to pirate their games in protest.
iMac Pro review: Hard to upgrade, but holy Jony Ive it’s fast
They train the doctoral rats to induce depression in other rats for research purposes, thus completing the cycle.
They were flying in a remote area, low to the ground. If it wasn't by an airport and below 400 feet, I'm not sure there was any wrong-doing on the drone's part. Sometimes they're called 'accidents' aka s* happens.
If a bored mathematician breaks AES, I think a lawsuit is going to be the least of my worries...
> You ever seen that Swole Bezos picture? He's that doughy, slightly nerdy guy who transformed himself into a hard assed cutthroat

Except Bezos provided an extremely logical explanation for that. He transformed himself physically because he wants to live as long as possible and be physically fit enough to travel into space when it becomes possible. Bezos is 54, which means his window is closing physically, he's attempting to delay that as long as possible.

Cutthroat, with what? The way he's taking on Walmart? The way he's taking on Apple? The way he's taking on Google? The way Amazon routinely gets voted as one of the best customer service companies?
It's been quite a few years since I tried to raise a Series A but this account really resonates with me. Probably the best guide of its type that I've ever read. Written if you don't know by a guy who has already sold one unicorn and invested in another.
More accurately, an rc car, not a squirrel. Squirrels are part of nature, but an rc car on a highway is an act of negligence.
The fact is that the operation of drones is legally prohibited in certain ways to avoid any chance of drones and aircraft intercepting each other in flight.

Whoever the operator of the drone is, they are wholly responsible for illegal operation of their drone and the results thereafter.
Has the original Labyrinth been found? (2009)
>So, nothing new

The notched screen and rounded corners makes it a different beast.
Similar for RHEL/CentOS/other-EL based distributions too, using the "yum-cron" package.
Ok, that sounds cool. Is there a proof of concept somewhere?
Can a drone stay in level flight in the downwash of a helicopter's main rotor? I'm not sure what their relative velocities are.
NYC unfairly keeps large grocers such as Walmart out of the city. You can order 40 water bottle packs from Costco using Instacart for 3.69 in NYC [1]. NYC Bodegas are not competitive, it is unfortunate the city allows the poor to be taken advantage of and forced to shop at such uncompetitively priced stores.

[1] https://www.instacart.com/store/items/item_128043194
You can’t compare prices in NYC and extrapolate that to the rest of the country - it’s the most expensive place for pretty much everything.
Which Industries Are the Winners and Losers of Venture Capital?
Both; humans brains are obviously bigger, more complex, and a have larger and more complex cerebral cortex (among other differences)

This is a good overview of comparative anatomy in lay terms: https://canvas.brown.edu/courses/851434/pages/comparative-ne...
> the problem with that is "what should actually be grown" has different answers depending on whether you value profit or feeding people.

It can only be a choice between making a profit and feeding people at break-even (feeding people while losing money is not sustainable). Beyond that, the profit signal carries useful information about what the people being fed would rather eat, while keeping in line with what is economically and environmentally viable.

The problem with the current situation is that water is mispriced, and mispricing, regardless of whether it favours suppliers or consumers, makes it unsustainable in the long run.
Good point. It's hard to get through confirmation bias, even when the person accuses you of being intellectually dishonest, but I agree the tone is a bit much.
It's a tough one.

I've been an Amazon Prime customer for a few years now and notice my buying habits centralise further and further on Amazon.

The main "selling point" for me, and this is where Amazon's dominance probably doesn't help things, is they own every facet of their distribution chain. So when they say on the website "guaranteed delivery tomorrow!" I can be certain that the item will arrive tomorrow. Before Christmas last year I needed to get a thunderbolt to HDMI adapter for my Mac so my family could play a game, Amazon got that to me on Christmas Eve. All turned around within the space of about 18 hours.

Additionally the Amazon lockers make it simple for me to pick things up on the way home from work (there's one just outside my tube station).

I'm not sure what other businesses can do to compete really, Amazon isn't necessarily always the cheapest place anymore, but they offer the convienience - and I haven't seen another business be able to match, or even beat that
That sounds kind of fun, if perhaps lethally risky for whatever poor soul is relying on the device.

If there weren't the results of mistakes leading to death or illness, I'd think black-box re-engineering a device like that would be one of the more interesting projects to take on.
Meta HN: About the quality of discussion or rather the lack therof
Dear HN,

over recent months I have felt that the quality of the discussions has fallen below previous levels in terms of subject-related talk. Specifically, I find it annoying that more and more top comments or top replies to top comments are puns and/or variations thereof.

A good laugh is healthy, I agree. But, to me, HN feels more and more like reddit. Phrases like "I'll probably get downvoted for..." are nonsensical, as it does not help a meaningful discussion at all.

So, I ask of you - do you have the same feeling?

Kind regards,
They gave a “space pirate certificate” to Matt Damon at commencement 2016.
Lol in the Midwest a glass of wine will run you $4-6 and an espresso around $2-3. Of course you'd pick the highest cost region.
I personally would stick to FP32 across the board for my ML efforts, but we have an entire cottage industry of people coming up with approximations to drive up perf and perf/W, all of which will prove irrelevant until Moore's Law runs out IMO. And even then, I'll still stick to FP32 personally. Speaking from direct experience, bulletproof mixed precision is tough.
Again, it's not about the validity of the idea, but how Damore handled himself with it.
Here is where I go confused. New tokens are supposed to be completely independent from ethereum economically, but at the same time they are somehow ethereum contracts. Would that not mean that someone needs at some point own ethereum and take the market risk?
I don’t really get this? If you’re using a sane library for layouting, updating your app to support the new frame isn’t too much of a struggle.
You mean the second, since I live in a nation (Uruguay) where the state controls far too many services and pushes for more and more "socialism"?

Well, I'm forced to pay healthcare for 3-4 people from my salary. I pay an absurdly high price for electricity due to the corruption that blossoms under a government monopoly. I also pay for the most expensive gasoline in the entire continent thanks to that.
A car is a luxury that costs double what it does in the US due to taxes (used to cost even more, until the Chinese came in with their cars and forced manufacturers to compete by lowering their cut). And don't come at me with public transportation; you absolutely cannot rely on our buses to be on time and taxis are absolute crap for the most part in price and quality. Thankfully Uber arrived and managed to get the government as far away as possible, which helped a lot. Then there's a whole industry dedicated to eliminating as much import tax as possible since big gov wants big tariffs which is also pushed by merchants that call it out as unfair competition because big gov taxes the shit out of local merchants and so on and so on.

So yeah, not working out great.
> What you are saying is that there is no point of trying to improve anything because it will have little effect. With that attitude surely no changes will be made.

The implication could be that the energy spent convincing people to not eat Nutella might be better spent on other strategies for solving the problem.

I personally have no idea what the best approach is -- I just wanted to point out another plausible interpretation of the comment.

As for Catsmull, he may be coming from a problematic context but that doesn't mean he doesn't have valuable insight.
I wish this was true, but it's not:

https://ca.water.usgs.gov/projects/central-valley/land-subsi...

The land in parts of the central valley has subsided by meters due to long-term groundwater depletion.