skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a remote and quiet place, Vikman says, she discovers thoughts and feelings that aren’t audible in her busy daily life. “If you want to know yourself you have to be with yourself, and discuss with yourself, be able to talk with yourself.”

I was a homemaker for years. A lot of housework is fairly mindless, allowing for uninterrupted deep thought because most folks will not bother you while you are doing laundry. They don't want to be asked to help.

I have spent years cultivating a relatively quiet life by American standards. Since my ex moved out, I mostly have not had a TV. I gave up my car years ago, giving up its built in radio along with it. In my household, it is a common courtesy to announce "I am starting up a video (or game) with voices." so as to not startle anyone.

People complain a lot about the stress of our 24/7 always on lives in the US. They often lay the blame on computers, smart phones, email notifications and social media. I have a smart phone and computers. I don't feel harried and interrupted and like I can't get a break.

My life was quiet before sleeping in a tent for nearly 6 years, but doing that deepened the quiet. I am prone to ear infections. I can't wear headphones because of it. My days were spent in a library. My nights were spent trying to be quiet enough to go unnoticed and not have the cops called on me. Games were often played with the sound off.

Peace and quiet is necessary to be able to hear yourself think. I think the degree to which constant noise interferes with deep contemplation and self reflection goes largely unrecognized.

A lot of people could probably skip therapy entirely if they could just arrange to hear themselves think. But I think many people are intentionally avoiding that because the constant flak of noise obscuring their thoughts and feelings is critical to their ability to stay in a relationship that doesn't work or at a job they actually hate.

Hearing their own opinions about their own lives would likely compel many of them to make hard decisions and big changes and they would rather not know. That's scary. It's overwhelming. The noise that enables remaining stuck is like an anaesthetic.
> a conservative person should simply find somewhere else to live if they are unhappy in any geographic regions...

Somewhere they can create a Christian cake shop in peace, you mean?
As a crypto-outsider I wonder what would happen if the transaction hashes of these robberies we're being flagged as robberies?

Doesn't the blockchain allow for tracking of any sufficient transactions and thus allow for descendants of flagged transactions to be prohibited from ever being converted into real currency again?

I guess, the "leverage" in this case would be that any platform/exchange/etc. that wants to go "official" (eg. IPO, or paying capital gains taxes) will have a problem if there are flagged funds in their books.

(Sorry, if this sounds ridiculously stupid for crypto guys)
Yes and they use haskell too
Furthermore, how many stock brokers go on teambuilding retreats?
Agreed, they're well-intentioned, but the minute they're OK with a few innocent victims in their pursuit of the guilty, I'm no longer on board.
Yeah agreed. I don't think most people actually understand the level of complexity involved in biology. A cell is literally a bag of molecules where everything inside is just bouncing around. And somehow, things self organize and stuff works and performs functions. And that's just one single cell. My background is in developmental biology, we have some mechanistic answers to how cells organize to maintain tissue polarity, but nothing really concrete.
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Leave us liberals out of this. /s

This is one of those areas where liberal and leftist diverge. As the author identifies, this aspect of social justice thinking is decidedly anti-liberal.

I actually think this is one of the bigger issues we are seeing with the current debate. Historically, we have had a liberal/leftist coalition in our culture. Now that this is starting to break apart, us liberals are having to come to terms with our leftist allies not actually being liberals; while the leftists are coming to terms with us liberals not actually being leftists.

Because of how inconceivable this divide is to many people, there is a lot of strawmaning of positions. So if a leftist sees a liberal argue for the liberal position in this debate, they see it as arguing against the leftist position; and since leftist==liberal, they must be arguing for the right/conservative posisition.

Since this issue is so politized, I don't think many liberals see the left as arguing for a right/conservative posistion; but many do see them as arguing for an authoritarian posistion, which has historically been associated with the right. As a result, I think that many liberals are simply confused about what is going on since, without the liberal/left distinction, all they see is "their" side going "crazy"; when, in reality, there simply is not (and never was) the common ground that both sides thought there was.

(Obviously, any reference to "historically" refers to the recent history. One does not need to go back that far to find major examples of widely accepted leftist-authoritarians, but those are more in the history books, then in the public perception).
For a while, years ago, I was on an "alternative history" fiction kick. Most of it is dreck, but one diamond in that rough was Orson Scott Card's Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus[1]. Without giving too much away, it's about a group of future historians that use time-travel to study past cultures, and discover that they can not only view past events, but influence them as well. It's got a couple of interesting semi-plausible what-ifs of different ways the Columbian Exchange might have worked out, under different parameters.

[1] http://amzn.to/2CvPY10
> regardless of the language you’ll end up with on average the same number of language constructs per line

I'm saying this isn't true. APL is the extreme example, but languages vary quite a lot in how many constructs you can and do cram onto a single line.
It is hard to express how much this story reads like a submarine: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Particularly, there seems nothing super newsworthy here, in terms of the fact that normally speaking, internal arrangement of a workplace office doesn't make the New York Times. But if one of the aforementioned three companies is pushing the AI buzz, dropping the names of Silicon Valley's top executives in a piece like this seems pretty much the stock way to do it.

Google in particular has revamped it's entire imagine and identity as a company around being "an AI company".

It's hard to imagine where this article originated from other than a PR firm.
But if you’re already at the point where you are at risk and your eyes show it, isn’t it already too late to really do anything about it?
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I miss Nomad and Aluna and Predator even though Predator is basically Huskar. I also heard Fortnight recently overtook PUBG.. and they're not even in China yet.

Wise advice OP.
1) Nokia is more than just their phone division. Might want to do a bit of research. That said their phone division is killing it right now.

2) Spotify, Soundcloud, Skype, Shazam, Deliveroo, King, Rovio etc. And there are hundreds of second tier internet sites looking at this list from 2013:

http://tech.eu/features/186/ignorance-is-remiss/
Have you noticed slow compiling with Haskell specifically?
> Go type system definitely has problems that aren't addressed by its designers

Wouldn't that break the promise of backwards compatibility that they made with major versions? They could probably do that in Go 2.

Personally, I think D is a more mature language, design wise, although it's a bit lacking in terms of libraries compared to Go and the tooling is, also lacking compared to Rust.
> But in Puerto Rico, most people have about 10 to 15 percent Native American DNA.

In one sense the original native american population of the Caribbean is gone, but in another sense they're not.
The technology exists today to provide adequate shielding...

Hell, as I recall, a simple buffer of several feet of water surrounding the living quarters would do the trick.
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So if it becomes law you are automatically fine with it?

Law follows morality, not the other way around.

If abortion is murder, the crime of possibly creating a hostile workplace pales in comparison.
I wish people understood that public debt is not really debt as ordinarily understood. It's really just an accounting artifact and tends to reflect and mirror net private savings.

That is unless your country does not issue it's own sovereign currency. Then it is debt.
I've also read that Kaiser Wilhelm II's government funded Lenin, intending that the revolution would keep Russia out of WW I.
That is how it works if done correctly. There was a process for her to get the money through a trust that wouldn’t be linked directly to her, but she signed for the winnings in a way that doesn’t allow that process anymore.
The issue is not just economic, it's spatial and temporal as well. This can provide STD test kits that fit in a pocket, deliver results on-site within minutes, and cost something comparable to an at-home pregnancy test or less.

This topic reminds of an excellent and relevant Mitch Hedberg skit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8pvD0TaO3Y
Keep in mind that native American groups were conquering, enslaving, and destroying other cultures as well - but they rarely kept records of it. It is not as if there was universal peace in the pre-Columbus Americas.
There is room for multiple approaches - as biology itself proves. Asimov has a pretty interesting approach and a really good team.

Tooling in the regulatory space of biology allows one to subtlety alter the mass transfer within existing networks - which can be harder to figure out, but often allows a delicate touch to cause a strong effect. And, especially, if you want to work in non-mammalian systems, I suspect you can actually start to build otherwise orthogonal networks.

At Serotiny we are playing with designing proteins and synthetic receptors whole cloth - which, though it can generate entirely new functionality, also brings with it all the challenges of dropping an invented capability into an existing system. You can be very creative, but integrating that creativity can itself become a challenge downstream.

Honestly, I think they are complementary approaches, and in the end, I suspect many of these approaches will ultimately converge (again, see 'life'). But we require expertise in each area first.
Hey, I live in the tranquil and magnificent south too! (Though I'm an immigrant.)

Can't find your contact details – maybe ping me on Twitter (ivmirx) or via email (ivan at qotoqot.com)?
You should post the link directly and write these comments as comments.
Also, ~2 million rich, educated white Russians fled to other parts of the world.
Why did you go to Salvador?
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I'm continually surprised by the Rust -> WASM pressure. I see projects like Redox and Servo and ripgrep and Tokio and, well, native or systems level things being it's true calling.

I don't want to write a webapp in Rust. It'll always be second class (though maybe that won't be a problem if the WASM apis get good enough...).
I agree, but many of the apps I've "crippled" using the following app still work as well as I need them to work:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmail.heag...
That's a political rhetoric. But most popular software has backdoors in the form of automatic updates.
Do you have proof of that? Isn't it possible people are trying to suppress certain ideas because they've been tried before with objectively catastrophic consequences?
It’s so absurd to me. Like, I agree with them on every actual issue, but I want nothing to do with their activism because they appear to be raging, absolutist jerks to everyone including other liberals.
In the general sense (not talking about elm) It's a risk going off the beaten path to leverage some new way of doing things that makes life easier, sometimes that risk pays off, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it pays off bigtime early and then starts costing big time later ( I experienced this using Meteor from early on in its life ). I went with C# when it was still beta, that paid off real well. I went with embedding lua into a embedded system very early in luas life, that was a great choice. I tried with moving to F# from C# and it was just too painful for the devs to switch (though I really like F#, it's advantages weren't huge over C# that made it compelling ). Considering trying again with converting C programmers to Rust for an embedded system where we are refreshing to a more modern chipset.

So mixed results, but just because it might not work out isn't reason to not take a risk, just have to work out how appropriate that risk is.
I have been self employed, working from wherever, for just shy of 7 years now.

Overall the experience has been life-changing in a positive way, and I would highly recommend people try this arrangement at least once in their careers to see if the tradeoffs give them an advantage.

Here are some benefits, in no particular order:

- I have the flexibility to rearrange my days so I never have to take time off work for things like shopping, errands, appointments, visits, meetings, and even events I want to attend during the day

- Because I can choose when I work, I am able to capture my most creative and productive times during the day for work, and spend my downtime doing chores or things that require little creativity

- By changing my surroundings according to my mood, I can 'hack' my productivity to a small extent (going to a lively environment when I feel unmotivated, isolating myself when I need to focus and block out interruptions, etc)

- I don't have a set wake up time, nor a set bed time. If I need to work late one day and it works to my advantage to stay up later rather than break, I can 'push' my next day back

And here are some downsides, in no particular order:

- You can go a little stir-crazy working from home too much, the onus is on your to get out of the house and surround yourself with other people to stay social

- Sometimes you will find yourself pushing life out of the way to make room for work because of the same flexibility that lets you push work out of the way for life sometimes. Not having set hours is a blessing and a curse at times, but overall beneficial

- It can be hard to gauge how you stack up to others if you're not seeing other people doing the same kind of work as you are. Some people are self-starters and compete against themselves for continual improvement, but if you lack in this area it can be a struggle to not stagnate and get too comfy in your role

For me, the benefits have far outweighed the downsides, and I can't imagine ever going back to the 9–5, butt-in-chair-all-day kind of work arrangement. I feel that by working remotely I am doing my best work ever, and I have the freedom and flexibility to improve myself too!
wechat is a bit different, not a good one to talk about, it was started by Tencent QQ Messenger (From back in the period when everyone had a messenger client like MSN, Yahoo, etc.) and was based on similar communication principles with a mobile twist.
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Russia had an elected parliament since 1905.

>You realize that communism didn't drag Russia down but actually improved their quality of life from the reign of the Czars right?

Did it improve faster than it would have under democratic rule?

And then there is the whole business with making half of Europe a 'starving shithole'.
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Weren't there some BMWs that required a mechanic with a special tool just to refill the DEF tank?
Confirmation bias?

Hillary Clinton said that after the election.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-future-is-female-hillary-clin...

If we agree that's a loaded term, perhaps we can also agree that in terms of dividing people by race and gender, Trump isn't so different from many leaders on the left. He's merely the first Republican who plays the game of identity politics that the left has played for so long.

I think it's a terrible shame that the dream of a race-blind, gender-blind society was abandoned...but the left, not Trump, is to blame for that.
I can see why interest should tend towards zero, but why would the rate?
Things had been on the up and up for the commoners in Russia since ~1860s, and Nicholas II was a relatively fair minded ruler. His biggest flaw was a thirst to maintain power, even though he objectively was impressed with constitutional monarchy. If he had let Russia transition peacefully into that form of government, we could have avoided communism.
Think of it this way: wasm is pretty similar in many ways to an embedded platform. Rust wants to be good at embedded, so making Rust good at wasm fits. A lot of the work is identical.
Who is the 'judge' in these cases responsible for updating the blacklist? How do you verify certain coins were stolen as opposed to an angry/regretful buyer?
Other than the 'yuck' factor, what's the real objection to all this? Have folks read too much Science Fiction where it all goes terribly wrong? Maybe it'll be fine. Grow organs in sheep, use them on ill people, folks get better, have a mutton dinner to celebrate!

Seriously, we wear sheep's wool and skin, crack chicken embryos into our batter to make it bake up nice and firm, rub animal oils into our skin and armpits to smell and look better. But use them for real medicine and suddenly "Whoa there! Lets think about this some more?"

I'm all for continuing until there's a problem, which probably won't ever happen.
The paper cites a few things

> But now the number of cited AI papers by Chinese scientists is already at 89% of the American level

Every article that wants to claim that China AI is on par with American AI claims this. But US has 10X the amount of AI scientists as China, which means Chinese AI scientists produces 10X amount of papers as American scientists. Quantity over quality, spurred by government cash rewards. Lots of noise, no bite.

> China’s e-commerce sales are double America’s. Chinese firms are collectively 53% as big as America’s, measured by market value

That's because China has 1.3B population, about 4X times more than America's 350B. However, it is projected that China will have peak population in this decade, and will be around 800M population sometimes in 2100. America has alot better demographics, vs China who has one of the oldest, and whose working population will contract by a few hundred millions by 2050

> Chinese non-tech firms are relatively primitive and only 26% as digitised as American ones. As for investment, Chinese tech’s absolute budget is only 30% as big as that of American tech. And it is still small abroad, with foreign sales of 18% of the total that American firms make.

that's the gist of the article. China is nowhere near as big as America's tech currently. And China is on its way to the lost decade (that's why xijingping recently wanted the provinces to focus on things other than GDP, since the local governments are levered to the hill with debt)
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And those who will lie about it no matter what happens.
A mish-mash of good ideas, uninspiring references to Marxism and clearly xenophobic traits--who according to the author can't be said because it's discriminatory, ye ye ye.

I mean, he totally lost me when he started saying "immigration raises crime rates" and other xenophobic propaganda, which is clearly, pardon my French, bovine excrement that people should feel ashamed of.
Exactly. And maybe the grass is always greener, but sometimes I envy the COBOL guy who earns a small fortune doing something that doesn't involve learning a new language and framework every two years.
We've collected a number of the various Cas variants into Pinecone if anyone wants to play around with the proteins [1]. In this article they speak of cheap detection, but in some sense those are the natural technological requirements or outcomes of their much more powerful editors (you have to be able to 'see' the results of what you've edited in order to more efficiently edit). In order to better edit, nice readouts were required to be invented.

The Cas systems are 'pointers' or 'cursors' to locate a specific sequence of DNA or RNA - and once you have a good pointer, you can bring to bear all the rest of biology's tricks at that location. Multi-fluorophore systems are great, and gels are easy. It's a super creative effort to utilize those cheap reagents and assays in the context of a creative 'DNA locator' system in order to amplify a single genomic signal to one that is readable by eye, in the field. And that capability makes the debugging of the editors themselves at the more cheap and easy. Our collective 'toolkit' is now becoming complete enough that the creative and combinatorial usage of existing tools will very quickly explode our capabilities.

YC's own Benchling also has the sequences (and is cited in the papers' supplements): https://benchling.com/s/seq-arzpsupZEzGu3ghBDhtv/edit

(Shame on Science Magazine for publishing a supplemental PDF with Benchling links that you cannot click on and sequences that are not copyable (pg 24). It's 2018!:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/suppl/2018/02/14/s... (and Benchling, if your target audience is printing out links, you might want to not use both O and 0 in your UIDs))

Our protein based design software: [1] https://serotiny.bio/pinecone/ (search Cas13, REPAIR)
You don't need to travel through interstellar space to get to Mars.
In the real world, you'd file a police report and then tell your bank. And let the bank put a hold on the transaction.

That way if it was buyer's remorse you would have committed a crime by filing a police report in the first place.
> no good programmer wants to actually join because its not sexy. (coal mining, medical equipment, etc)

Good programmers don't want to join these kinds of jobs because most normal businesses don't understand software engineering or the market and treat it like a cost center.

I started out my software career by writing vb macros in excel and saved my "boring business" company hundreds of thousands as a side effort to my normal job. Yet I couldn't get any traction to do it full time or to have autonomy or to get a meaningful (30-50%) pay increase to match the dev market salary.
Well of course we're all doing that already. Just in very low amounts. I don't worry about what's not a problem.
The bay area would have 50% less traffic, less noise, less pollution, less resource waste building these huge corp complexes...sounds like something that should be implemented now. At minimum incentives to push workforces to 50% of the time at home - when you need to go into the office (critical in-person collab, etc) then you can go...
It seems like a really strange choice for the "source" language to be JS - a language without any real static typing capability (even with TS).

The most limited & basic kinds of static analysis are technically possible, but why not just start with an entirely static language and translate from that to dynamic languages? Would seem much simpler...