skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it really just a matter of "being stupid"?

We know that cleromancy (casting of lots) was practiced among Hebrew populations and in ancient Rome [0]. Under a worldview in which the knowledge and will of the divine is made manifest through natural acts, where things aren't just "happenstance" but are inherently infused with meaning, this makes complete sense.

This is also why trial by ordeal was a thing in many ancient societies, and why it was seen to be legitimate enough to have as part of a judicial system. The idea is that divine forces will show their favor based on the outcome of what would seem to us to be chance. Now there were probably some that were more cynical or less so about all this, and that may be part of how such systems actually gained legitimacy, because those in authority could tip the scales occasionally [1].

I don't think we can compartmentalize the beliefs and mindsets of people, especially ancient people, into "secular" and "religious" domains. It was all intertwined in a way that is hard for us to relate to in modern times, even among modern religious people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleromancy
[1] https://aeon.co/ideas/why-the-trial-by-ordeal-was-actually-a...

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EDIT: I did some more reading and found something interesting -- there is a mention of "loaded dice" in the Mahabharata: [2]

>Shakuni's dice were off course made of his father's thigh bone and is believed to possess that special power of giving the number according to Shakuni's will.

From this the idea that dice could be manipulated or used to cheat in various ways seems to have been known far in the past, but there is still an interesting connection between dice-rolling and supernatural influences, even in the case of loaded dice. One of these days I should learn more about the Mahabharata.

[2] https://www.quora.com/Mahabharata-Hindu-epic-How-did-Shakuni...
> but I think C02 isn't the primary concern. Petroleum usage and plastic waste are greater concerns.

CO2 is the primary concern. Storing waste is not a problem in most parts of the world.

The amount of steel it would require isn't important. What's important is how much energy it takes to make that straw and the other environmental impacts of doing so. It takes magnitudes more energy to melt steel than it does to melt plastic. It would take years to offset the CO2 costs of a steel straw. You also need to factor in the energy and water it takes to clean the straw and the likelihood of damaging or losing it over that time.

The best option is to stop using straws. They're completely unnecessary unless you have a physical disability.
This is exactly why choosing a specific year, such as 1965, is political. It would be intellectually honest if they posted a range, with a large error margin.
A larger company has an opportunity to do more smart things... but also an opportunity to do a larger number of dumb things.
> They would be so much better if they had even a few more millimeters of leeway in their positioning.

Agreed.

Alternatively, maybe phone manufacturers can just stick a freaking magnet onto the phone and charger so that we can more easily feel where the proper positioning is. It doesn't need to be a strong magnet, it just needs to be enough so that I know where to center my phone without looking at the setup.
What the hell did I just watch?
For most of my more menial wordprocessing tasks Pages is perfectly adequate (I don’t have Word).
Not to get too meta, but the fact that "discussions of race/gender in tech == politics in general" is a call-out that many may not think of.

E.g., an article discussing women tech leaders may not seem like regular politics, but recent politics tend to prove otherwise.
A few more of interest:

• You cannot downvote a comment after 24 hours have passed. (There is no time limit for upvotes.)

• You cannot downvote comments which are direct replies to your own. (There is no restriction to downvote further descendants.)

• You cannot unvote/undown a comment after (I think) one hour has passed.

• You cannot reply to a reply to one of your comments for a certain number of minutes, which increases based on some relation with nesting depth. However, the reply link appears sooner on the permalink of such comments than it does from the story page.

• You cannot edit a comment after (I think) one hour has passed.
> especially on linux desktop ironically

I don’t know what the goals of the electron team are (unless they have shares in power companies and thus want CPU’s running at 100% everywhere) but I doubt their goal was making “desktop apps that aren’t available on linux”.

That’s the only way this would be irony.
I can see your point (particularly with regard to deliverables), but I suspect the practice is quite widespread - comments often end up being used as a sort of brain dump.

For instance, see this article (from 2004) on comments in the Win2k source code: http://atdt.freeshell.org/k5/story_2004_2_15_71552_7795.html
This looks like a great alternative to Wistia for online course sites/platforms like Teachable. I believe many developer built and focused subscription video sites like gorails.com for example use Wistia because it makes video easier, just like mux, even if they have no use for the marketing focused gui tools.

Wistia is much better than other OVPs for startup projects but they charge 100/month if you want more than 3 videos which meant paying for while my project was still in development. Amazon like pricing would have been a major relief.

The pricing is far better as well. For HD video at 3GB per hour thats .026/GB compared to .085/GB for low volume on cloudfront, although hard to compare without knowing how much streaming will be full HD for a given video service.
For websites and internal web applications I use the following.

Framework:

- A bastardized modification of Django (bad choice, but I'm stuck with it). I'd really like to try Pyramid or Flask.

- Mako for templating.

Databases:

- PostgreSQL for primary data storage.

- Solr for full-text search.

- Redis for cached data.

Servers:

- Nginx for the front-end server.

- uWSGI for the application server (bridge between Nginx and Django). I'd like to try Nginx Unit.

Browser-side:

- jQuery for functionality.

- Bootstrap for base styles.
I understand the complexity and function of the FFT. However, the sluggishness of this demo is not due to the actual synthesis of the final wave, it is due to calculating and render each individual waves. I agree you could easily synthesize the final wave with the IFFT, but the point of the demo is to display all the components. The IFFT wouldn't help with this.
Not everyone here has a CS degree.

Some of us even question the value of a CS degree.
The Overnight app is optimized for this use-case, among other things. (Disclaimer: I’m an investor, but because I think it fills a real need)
Many US supermarkets use very thin plastic bags. I'm guessing 0.5 mil []. They're noticeably thinner than the type you (used) to get from UK supermarkets. This site suggests that "reusable" type would be > 2.25 mil.

https://1bagatatime.com/learn/what-is-a-mill/
i deleted my facebook last year and i tell everyone i can at every opportunity to do so as well. statistically invisible isnt actually invisible.

whats frustrating is blogs and comments that carry an air that facebook can change in the user's favor, much less that it ever will. i have read quite a few complaints myself that backtrack once it gets to presenting a positive, constructive solution to the problem (i.e. deleting your facebook) and suggest that facebook can be used by users for their benefit if users change their behavior. this puts an insurmountable burden on users to change a product that they are not in any way shape or form in control of. truly the only thing users have in their control regarding facebook is whether or not they have and/or use an account. deleting facebook is exhibiting control, and i believe everyone should do so.
The Amazing Story of the Russian Defector Who Changed His Mind
On Linux you can’t install globally without sudo. Unlike on Windows global means system global, not user-global. Such a thing does simply not exist for Linux’s npm.

If they fixed that, 99% of these issues would go away. This is actually an example of something from the node universe working better on Windows.
I don't think this fits the analogy. The DNA was/is search tech long before ads came around.

It's like saying Lebron James' DNA is basketball because that's how he makes all his money. In reality, his DNA is his natural athletic abilities. Basketball is something he does well because of it.
Did You Like 4 Hour Work Week but Failed to Put It into Life?
Oh I see what you mean. You can see a system like that in action on Stack Overflow. I don't think it really does very much at all there either, under what seem like much more favourable conditions: harder to accumulate karma, lots and lots of permission thresholds, a community involved in far more moderation than here and piles of caps on all sorts of user actions.

On HN, this would also favour commenting participation over curating participation. It's not obvious this is a win over the way things work now.
“Well, most sources define libertarianism as a political philosophy emphasizing individual autonomy and skeptical of government intervention. Libertarians come to their position for a wide variety of reasons, including belief that bottom-up local knowledge makes better decisions than top-down absolutism, or that government intervention naturally favors the powerful, or that if you actually ask poor people what they want, it’s usually more money, not people taking choices away from them and treating them like children. A fraction of libertarians – I think a small fraction, though I can’t prove it – are also believers in a deontological theory of natural rights which emphasizes non-aggression as the fundamental moral principle.
The “Russia Stuff” fits right into the class war.

US placed sanctions on wealthy Russians through Magnitsky act, which they didn’t like, so Putin ran an intelligence operation to get someone elected more likely to overturn it. This is still about putting the interests of the wealthy first. They see each other as peers and allies regardless of nationality.
Pidgin (formerly known as GAIM) and its subproject libpurple is the one to thank for. Telepathy [1] and Bitlbee [2] are based on that. I used all of these throughout the '00s. Before the Nokia N900, I used a Nokia E71 with Nimbuzz (basically proprietary but it runs something like Bitlbee under the hood on their servers).

Some of these protocols are open, some are reverse engineered. Problem with the current generation is that they're focussed much more on security features such as E2EE. Although before GAIM, we had other applications which did multiple protocols we also had loads of single purpose applications for all these protocols you mentioned and a whole lot more. Back in the end of '90s if you wanted to run MSN and ICQ and AIM on Windows, you had to use a client for each of these. Its basically a cat and mouse game. Look at the history of the Skype support for an example of that.

[1] https://telepathy.freedesktop.org/

[2] https://www.bitlbee.org
Just got access, posting a review soon.
Rather than use a clip-on version, go with something like AngelCare's line of under-the-mattress ones. False-positives will be the bane of your existence, so you want to avoid things that can fall off. With ours we usually got alarms when our kids rolled to the very edge of the bed.

We never had any real issues with either of our kids, and only false alarms. But I know my wife got better sleep just because the alarm was there (only in part because I was usually the one to check when the alarm went off).
How about a guarantee that the guests won't throw a party in my house and disturb my neighbors? This has been a constant problem for me.
Show HN: Listen Later – Pocket / Instapaper for Podcasts
Getting that much needed 4.8 rating, reminds me of certain dark reflective surface.
That means net as a population you can't sell, you can only buy. With that in place the price can only go in one direction.
No subtitles on the Shanghai video... 不好！
Nice job! Can this be scaled and distributed to multiple machines?
Ends justifies the means? The arguments against this are ethics 101, it leads to extremism.
Boomtown Seattle: Why we move here – and how we’re all in it together
CamScanner Phone PDF Creator v5.5.0.20180205 Unlocked Apk
Absolutely. A dishwasher in the average American household, unless they're having massive dinner parties every night, is wanton arrogance. They not only use more resources than handwashing, it also takes longer.
~/bin is not in the PATH for many systems. So, if you want beginners to be able to use your program, you'd have to provide instructions on how to change the PATH on each platform that requires it. Then you have to hope that they don't accidentally screw anything up in their profile scripts while making the changes, as I did back when I was new to Linux.

It's extra-frustrating writing those instructions, because not only are they platform-specific, but they are different depending on what the user has already done to their system. If some other tool told them to create ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login, the more shell-agnostic option of modifying ~/.profile will no longer work.

Figuring out where to change the PATH is also confusing, and you might come across solutions that seem to work, but cause weird errors later down the road. For example, the tool being unavailable when invoked remotely, because you only changed the PATH for interactive shells.

It's understandable that people use sudo when they don't see it causing any obvious problems. Installing user-local packages should be one simple command, and it's a failure of operating systems and package managers that it's not. As it stands, correct usage is much harder than incorrect usage, and this is the result.
Is this the one that uses OpenGL or something to render everything (ie nonnative text controls etc)?
I was really interested by how much of Robinhood's UI is designed like a game, versus offering a way to really research or analyze stocks.
By that metric, what is the environment and why is it important to protect it? On an abstract enough scale, we and our plastic are simply evolutionary products and the fact that we are wiping out species and cataclysmically heating the planet is just a geological event that might be called The Great Human Extinction by some distant inteligent race.

As George Carlin used to say, the planet is just fine. It's the people who are f*ed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
Naval Ravikant on Periscope Discussing Crypto, Reading, and How to Make Money
HA! That made me think of what might be an interesting feature on a forum, if the parent gets downvoted, all the children do as well. Might prevent feeding trolls or expanding off-topic conversations.
Wallstreetbets is doomed...
That works in cities that are perfect grids. Try navigating the scottish highlands like that. You might have gone miles down a road before you realise that it's not going the way you want to go.
I think all human systems favor the powerful.

education, legal etc. favor the intellectually powerful.

warfare, physical sports the physically powerful.

monatary systems favor the financially powerful.
>Why? pipenv handles dependency- and virtual-environment-management in a way that’s very intuitive (to me), and fits perfectly with my desired workflow.

Why specifically do you use it instead of virtualenv (+virtualenvwrapper)?
Interval Newton is probably my favorite algorithm. Intervals in concert with the fixed point theorems - amazing stuff. (and all the rest! - contractors, inclusion/exclusion tests exploiting derivative info, etc.) Good tools for optimization, indeed.
Lots of my friends have said the same thing. I've always wondered why people didn't re-use bags before the charge...

Saving the environment didn't matter, but 5p does? People didn't know plastic was bad before? They didn't care?

It's great that the 5p charge works, but do we need to have a 5p charge on every bit of plastic to drive the point home?
How many sentences is TL these days? But yes, this is an offensive AI, and no, we aren’t passive-only today - look at the IoT botnets.
Curious? Says Hashgraph Official Website, What Could It Mean?
I didn't have the time to wait in line every few weeks to turn in my recyclables in LA so I put them all in a bag next to the dumpster for the complex. I didn't start doing this until after I noticed the dumpster divers were coming anyways.
How you do this? Probably some of us could guess, but maybe will help people that only know electron :)
I have a question for Bitcoin fans. This is the opening sentence of the abstract from the original Bitcoin paper:

"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution." [1]

In the Bitcoin community is that vision basically dead? As here, all of the action seems to be through financial institutions.

[1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
According to the article GM has decided to simply restrict the domain of their semi-autonomous offering to only work on divided highways. The author says that the result is innovative and brilliant. But the problems they're trying to solve are not nearly as ambitious or challenging as those Tesla has decided to tackle.

While it can be argued that GM should received kudos for releasing a feature that can work reliably, I don't see it as innovative.

It kind of reinforces that traditional car makers are never going to offer anything revolutionary to the car market. They're going to use the work of others to incrementally add features to cars that they think will increase sales. They won't take risks with technology.
Article for Scala Devs. Akka: Data Access Actors
I don't know much of anything about Rust, and I have a pretty limited knowledge of ARM, but I think that the 'Nested Vector Interrupt Controller' basically just pushes a stack frame and jumps to the memory location specified in a vector table that lives near the start of memory.

That sounds like how C functions are called; does Rust do something different?
Question on “hidden” features: Sometimes sub-level comments (not even particularly deep) don’t have a ‘reply’ button - is this turned off for particularly controversial (in voting) comments?

> Hacker News encourages a single discussion on a given story. All others are marked as a [dupe] and will be killed[...]

The addition to this is that after a while this isn’t enforced - which is why you’ll see the same articles coming up reasonably regularly.
In the Metroplex the plastic bag law was repealed after bag manufacturers sued the city for unlawful taxes on containers. It didn't have majority citizen support anyways, was seen as a way to complicate purchasing on smaller retailers, and many were just paying the fee anyways. While many support the idea of reduced plastic bag consumption, they didn't like the government tax approach. I personally don't have a strong opinion.
noprocrast is in the FAQ, which is why I didn't add it.
Agreed. Kraken has been terribly unstable. What about Gemini, any thoughts on that exchange?
The Chakra Javascript engine uses a conservative generational mark and sweep collector with many phases running in parallel to code execution. It looks like Chakra is now on github (and with an MIT license). In chakra the GC is called it a 'Recycler', which can throw one for a loop when searching for the GC implementation.
Do you allow login with Google?
Too bad I live in Poland :)
This is a pilot run of 50. Think of them as prototypes. They will use what they learn from these prototypes to build a larger fleet. If they can make these purchase price competitive with their current trucks it will be a huge win.
Yes, that's true. It would show up in your command history though. Even though it's probably not readable by anyone else except root, it's still probably not a good idea to have it persisted to disk.
> easy solution here would be to disable global installs

I think that's not optimal. Having package being installed "globally" (as in available on your PATH) is nice. You can install `yarn` by doing `npm install --global yarn`.

The trouble is how people setup their node/npm installation. Instead of having global packages setup under the home directory, people use the default which requires root access.

Instead, default installation should be in user-accessible place and running npm with sudo should be exiting without doing anything.
> As for point 2, if someone is more worthy... why is that bad?

Someone is "more worthy" according to an opaque machine learning algorithm. Your line is exactly the danger: people are going to confuse "the computer says X" with "X is true".
"Including belief that bottom-up local knowledge makes better decisions than top-down absolutism"

unless organizations, people are allowed to conceal information or mis-represent ie. prices, quality etc.
>In the Bitcoin community is that vision basically dead? As here, all of the action seems to be through financial institutions.

It's never been about the "vision" for anyone but Satoshi. It's just money. That's why this whole thing is just incredibly uninteresting IMO.
2030 seems far, but it's better than no deadline. I believe they give so many years to make this change, to allow manufactures to make adjustments and changes to their machinery without hurting jobs.
“Main stream news doesn’t cover everything I think they should, therefore I will get revenge by staying as uninformed as possible.”

Mueller laid out very specific evidence in publicly available indictments. It’s published on government website, you can read the whole thing for yourself.
Not any more. Now it uses native controls.
Right! They exclude cases where they don’t work, then conclude ‘All antidepressants were more efficacious than placebo’. This is highly misleading
Imagine if they threw you in jail for it. I bet you'd think even harder and we'd definitely get rid of plastic bags.
Even if they acquired a 51% stake on the cheap, they would still own $4b worth of NEO today. Revealing that they hold a majority stake would destroy NEO's price, since it breaks the security model, resulting in a $4b loss.
The strategy that the dlib implementation uses of combining a global optimization method (LIPO) with one that works better locally (TR) reminds me of another recent paper I ran across, which takes a black-box global optimization algorithm (StoSOO) and improves local convergence behavior using CMA-ES [1]. A main difference seems to be that StoSOO focuses on robustness to noisy functions more than LIPO does.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10898-016-0482-9 / http://ssamot.me/papers/global-optimisation.pdf
US Residents may face legal issues if they buy the new Venezuelan cryptocurrency
Robots and lasers are uncovering an ancient, sacred geography
Cocoa on macOS, WinAPI on Windows, GTK on Linux.
Agree. I think a good counterexample is what Lyft did at the end of last year: https://blog.lyft.com/posts/thank-you

It feels really authentic (and it probably is).
how do you feel about the government imposing these rules on commerce. In the UK we're quite used to this and don't mind. Americans often feel that government should keep out of capitalism.
>Just as HN digs deeper on technical topics, it should dig deeper on political and ethical topics.

It should, but it often doesn't. For some reason, politics short circuits people's brains. And one way to encourage people to dig deeper is to keep shooting into the trenches, being more aggressive about downvoting political content than apolitical, technical content.
Hauling antiprotons around in a van
It's actually surprising Ajit Pai would publicly support competition when his entire schtick seems to be locking down on it.
Check the screen before you buy, they display fees:

https://ibb.co/eCkthc

Also the base price is more expensive than gdax (also owned by coinbase).