skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With respect, I think you're dead wrong.

Pinker may be out of his depth when it comes to the bigger concepts but within the narrow constraints of materialism the data is incontrovertible. Pointing to a review written by Gray of Pinker's work when Gray is _explicitly_ in the camp which opposes the Polyannas of progress is bad sportsmanship.

What you should be asking yourself is how we can synthesise a worldview that incorporates both optimists and pessimists. I wholeheartedly agree that more nuance is needed but I also think that Pinker has done an excellent job at framing one side of the debate. The fact that he thinks there is only one side of the debate only means that he has as hard a time as the rest of us taking in the enormous sweep of human history and science.

I very much doubt you could write a decent rebuttal of either of his last two works.
The multi-dimensional chess of Qualcomm vs. Broadcom
I have no idea why this decidedly minor failed movement should figure prominently in any telling of the rise of fascism in Germany.

As you state yourself, it lasted for less than a month. I will add that this month in semi-power occurred before Hitler had even joined the Nazi party.
much of whats covered in org mode can be handled by vim's folding option. if you write ansible playbooks with coworkers who handle automation as a stream of consciousness out of a single file, folding can save you some sanity.

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Folding
They did it before Telegram ICO was announced so it is not an evidence. Now, they have no other financially profitable choice but to make FUD to increase the likelihood of Telegram's fail. I don't say it is bad, it is just a better description of the events.
When I was first learning C in engineering school, the profs were writing their lab instructions for the free copy of Visual Studio that we got. This still caused a headache among a number of students, so once myself and another student found Dev-C++, it was a watershed moment for the majority of the class that was up to this point (myself included) rather noobish, and Windows-only.
I honestly think it is a good idea, no matter which distribution or OS you are on, to never ever depend on system python/pip (or perl for that matter), just install pyenv / pipenv / pipsi (or perlbrew) so you have complete control.

From a distribution perspective I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be a better idea to call the system python/perl something like system-python/system-perl to make it more obvious they are not meant for use, and have a /usr/bin/python that tells you to install pyenv...
Blockchain – The Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria
So putting it all together:

We need single payer healthcare to avoid another Nazi party and Holocaust.

This is the logic of what you're saying, right? Will single payer be enough or is it just the start of the policy requirements to avoid another Nazi party?

Edit: people are voting me down but his last paragraph almost says this straight out. It is such a wild idea that without socialist policies were headed for nazis again is crazy.
Anecdata: my wife’s allergies come and go quite predictably switching between regular and hypoallergenic soaps and laundry detergents. Especially with laundry detergent a single load with the wrong detergent can have her sneezing all day. That doesn’t fit the micro organism exposure theory.

Myself I have an allergy to grass pollen, but the catalyst that really brings it out is car exhaust. Personally I believe that the chemicals in our environment are catalysts for natural sensitivities, turning them into allergies.
> ... austerity measures, measured as the combination of tax increases and spending cuts...

Wikipedia defines the term as either or both of these things. Investopedia defines it as only the latter, and modern political discourse seems to do the same. At any rate the definition seems contentious, and the headline potentially misleading (increase spending to avoid the rise of a catastrophically evil regime).
Yes, but unfortunately I think Debian is abandoning lsb. And most of its offspring will follow :(
I wouldn’t be so quick to write the telegram team off. Most of the existing players in crypto have a vested interest in seeing them fail.

On the one hand the Telegram team have a solid track record & a lot of users: They produced a high quality app that’s used by hundreds of millions of users. Also add to that the fact that more of the crypto chat related channels are on telegram.

On the other hand if you read through the white paper they put out, they give a timeline that promiss to do everything from wallets, to distributed file storage/computing/exchanges. That’s a very high bar to set without providing a lot of technical details. A leaked copy of the white paper can be read here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ucUeKg_NiR8RxNAonb8Q55jZha0...

Personally I think it’s worth taking a small bet on them. The biggest problem in crypto right now is a lack of widely used consumer apps. Getting hundreds of millions of people to use an app is a harder than solving some of the distributed systems problems facing crypto right now in my book. I could see the telegram team pulling this off.
> Once a week is the maximum I’ve understood would be healthy for typical first world lifestyles.

As far as I understand, the 16-hour fasting (skipping breakfast) is something you keep doing rather than once a week. Unlike a 24/48+ hour fasting some people do once in a while... Maybe I missed some crucial piece of information?
Blood Test Could Make Monitoring Mesothelioma Easier
It's still hard to imagine. At the point where the investigation was scoped ("looks like this is going to take months"), and the risk assessed ("there's a nonzero chance this will yield nothing except a rejection with justification"), did you decide "yes, this is something I choose to work on."?

These things don't just sneak up on you, at least not if you are planning and scoping your work ahead of time. If your workplace culture doesn't compel you to do that, you should do it anyway, so you don't get into situations like the one you're in.
Two degrees in economics is equivalent to a bishopric isn't it.

Don't think it actually means any actual knowledge.

The world collapsed ten years ago due to these beliefs. Stop repeating them as though they are actual science. They are not. You wasted your time.
Not the ideal solution, but you can always use pandoc to convert org to html, or even markdown and configure the html generation from there.
Ignorance rising.. When you hate a certain browser to such length
Proof?

In general i think we all agree that hiring people for spamming and humiliating others is disgusting, isn't it? Some moronic guy still tried lately on 4Chan's /g to get there people for his dumb quest.

A Pale Moon hater from Ghacks posted on 4Chan to recruit people to flame against it on the same Ghacks article where he was posting. 4Chan people of course did not approve and pawned him in a serious way. 4Chan guy posts on Ghacks the proof that that fag was trying to hire people for shit-posting. Most likely the troll managed that the posting was removed from Ghacks.

Even if one hates a browser like Pale Moon, there is just a certain level of stupidity one should not surpass.

Lamer: https://warosu.org/g/thread/65022913

Ghacks post: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/06/pale-moon-27-8-released/

Guy is known as 1ppst5r or Appster on Ghacks!

Seems we are hitting more and more incredible levels of mental deprecation.
It's limiting who can even enter college. Blyth specifically recommends "Free College Tuition". I (perhaps unwisely) mentioned the milder goal only addressing current student debt with the goal of avoiding being dismissed as "marxism".

I strongly recommend listening to Blyth's actual explanation (in this or his other talks & publications), not my poor-quality summary.
It's only been in the last couple decades that those things have come into the public consciousness. It can take decades to change perception, especially with something like diamonds that aren't usually purchased by or for kids.

Those kids growing up in the 90s who heard about all the shit DeBeers did and continues to do are now of the age where they would be a customer and they aren't buying. The up and coming generations certainly don't value diamonds either.

I would bet that in 15-20 years the market will decline significantly further and the artificial diamonds are only going to hasten that decline.
There will be, whatever way the wind blows. The Netherlands is a good example here, a country which produces natural gas itself and moved from coal and oil to natural gas heating (and cooking) after natural gas was found in Slochteren in the province of Groningen in 1959 [1]. Back then all houses (with few exceptions) were connected to the natural gas distribution network. Natural gas was the mainstay of both the Dutch economy for decades to come. This is changing, rapidly. All new houses will be fossil-free in 2050, many houses already are. I bought a new house in 1995 which was not connected to the gas pipes, heating was done through surplus heat from a nearby power plant.

In Sweden - where I live now - geothermal heating using heat pumps is currently the biggest growing sector in a market where around 40% of houses uses some form of electric heating [2 (Swedish)] due to a push from the government in the '60s to move to (then cheap) electric heating.

Both Sweden and the Netherlands are highly developed countries which are in the forefront of developments so this does not mean all countries will immediately dump natural gas. It does give an idea of where developments are going though, especially seen in the light of rising tensions between gas-producing countries and those which are dependent on them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen_gas_field

[2] http://www.varmemarknad.se/pdf/Varmemarknad_Sverige_sammanfa...
You should just start an econ and politics aggregator. This is about the most blatant of "naked politics" as you can get.

It is high quality... For another site.

From the guidelines of what off topic: "Most stories about politics". If this is allowed, the guidelines don't mean much.
I remember the first few summers they invaded Maryland en masse. They were everywhere, like the article describes. I got pretty good at picking them up with papers and throwing them in the toilet without them spraying their smell.

My mother noticed they were coming through the chimney so she sprayed up there with some sort of bug spray.

Bad idea. Hundreds of them died and fell all at once, each releasing their stink reserves in death. There were several vacuum cleaner bags worth of them. The living room smelled like soapy rotten cilantro for a week.

They were so new, they didn’t really have natural predators. I was so happy to see a robin eat one one day. They didn’t come back in nearly as great a number after that.
Just on-site, sorry.
I'm female. In many places, I literally cannot follow your advice without getting arrested.

Additionally, I'm too far north for this to do enough. December days are only 4-5 hours long. If I work a normal first shift, I'd have to do this during my half hour lunch or I'd miss daylight completely... plus the fact that the sun isn't strong enough to give me enough benefits.

Now, the good news: It isn't all bad advice. I had low vitamin D this winter, and felt pretty sick. The doctor's advice once I'm done with my 3-months of prescription vitamins: From September through April, I need to take a supplement. 20IU a day. The rest of the year, I need to be out in the daylight for 15 minutes a day, with at least arms exposed (not just my face). It isn't that one needs their shirt off, just skin exposure. This is quite doable.
All Jetbrains' IDEs are recommended
I realize that "just google" is dangerous and I should rephrase my advice.

What I meant is to google basic public health information provided by national health authorities and international health organizations. They usually give a balanced view. For example, it's not beneficial to avoid going outside or not doing outdoor activities because they have other health benefits that outweigh skin cancer risk. Tanned skin is damaged skin but maybe you should accept the risk not avoid getting some tan.

For example:

https://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/calls/prevent-skin-ca...
How do you sell stuff when everybody is unemployed.

And during the point where everybody isn't quite unemployed why should those working continue to work a full week just to give their output to those not working? Isn't that slavery?

How do you get there from here.
Potent malware that hid for six years spread through routers
They're called conflict or blood diamonds for a reason. The controlling interests in the regions of Africa where most diamonds come from employ slave, child, and forced labor in mines.

If you want a fair trade diamond you need one that's certified to have come from somewhere like Canada.
Boring Co to prioritize pedestrians and bikes over cars
I would characterize this as a "when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail" thing. If you ask web companies how to have some devices communicate, it's pretty likely they're going to come up with a web platform.
The WPA and it's role in coming out of the depression are also lessons from history that people need to re-learn. Everything in moderation.
Imagine for a minute that in some moderate sized state in the US, radical left or radical right individuals organized and violently overthrew the government by force with tens of thousands of 'soldiers.' And then they started living up to every imagined stereotype of their ideology.

Can you imagine how that would change this country? How would you respond? I expect we would almost certainly end up going hard in the opposite ideological direction of whomever did it. This a crucial point in understanding how and why it was so [relatively] 'easy' for quite absurd views to start to take hold.
What about the Windows API do you think is beautiful? Because the insane types (LPCTSTR & LPDWORD), inconsistent handling of strings and function suffixes (A vs W) is enough for me to think it is ugly. And that's just scratching the surface...
Sounds just like me. One thing at a time can be ok but combinations really triggers. Sneezing constantly for hours is not fun. Antihistamin helps a lot by removing the pollen side and then I can stand the bad air pollution from cars.

Friends washing their clothes in perfume however there is no cure for yet.
Following this explanation this doesn't explain the political developments in Germany. Or perhaps it does, as the rise of right-wing politicians and extremists is still rather limited. Worrisome nevertheless.
Build 2 game engine by Ken Silverman
Could you elaborate?

The author himself mention caselaw that he used as reference. If a resident from the same court jurisdiction with the same circumstances(Equifax data breach victim) why would the facts be different beside the identify of the plaintiff?
I've been looking for a similar solution - albeit not for HTML - but haven't found anything convincing so far. My train of thought was: It'd be great to have a a canonical XML format for org files to export to, since after that, you could essentially write XSLT transforms for almost any target format (even back to org-files to go full circle). In my case, that e.g. would be odt-files with branding for the organization I'm taking minutes for.

After a bit of googling, I also found an email[1] on the mailing list asking for more or less exactly that, but things don't seem to have gotten far.

I've been thinking about adapting the existing HTML export for such an XML format, but I really haven't had the time for it. :-/

[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2009-08/msg...
I have watched a few of noopkat's streams and she's very intriguing and a pleasure to watch. If you haven't checked out her stuff, definitely do it.
I thought it existed for Chrome, the github page has a link to the chrome store where you can download it

github: https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

chromestore: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/umatrix/ogfcmafjal...
Personally I find it's the opposite if I'm not well rested I feeling death and feel super depressed. I had a job that believed this and limited us sometimes to only 90 minutes sleep. I never worked with a more angry group of people. I'm 46 years old, working like that at 45 almost killed me. Oversleeping can also be a factor in depression but there is a golden sweet spot of just enough sleep and not too much that can vary greatly between individuals you have to find out for yourself what that sweet spot is. Certainly 90 minutes is not enough to sustain health
Analyzing and mitigating privacy with the DNS root service [pdf]
I agree 100%. My ambition if for higher quality content.
ssshhh, that kind of talk is how you pop the bubble before the people who know this can cash out.
That's saying that some recently fashionable, and fairly elaborate, theories about teaching children are basically junk science.

That includes the ideas that there are left/right brain learners, children who are holistic as opposed to serialists, and children who are inherently "verbalisers" or "visualisers".

I don't doubt they're right. But I think it would be a mistake to read that article and conclude that adults who simply say they do much better with videos than books, or vice versa, are mistaken about themselves.
I think that is a different principle.
Reading the article I can draw some distinct comparisons to the United States colonies in the sixteen hundreds at the helm of people like Cotton Mather. He may have been a decent local leader if England hadnt insisted on bleeding the US dry to pay for war. Instead he rose quickly to power and not only doubled down on his west african savage rhetoric in order to preserve what would now be considered libertarian ethos, but helped to cement a 200 year old legacy of racist and prejudice thinking in the united states. Much of the reason interracial marriage was shunned throughout american history is due to prejudice he introduced intentionally to avoid marriage conditions rendering slaves automatically freed. Mather worked directly to oppose englands emancipation laws from being extended into the colonies, as it would have restricted the ability to trade on the open market (specifically cotton) and continued US dependence upon the crown.
Worth noting that, as of a week ago in nightly, there are new convenience methods on unsafe pointers to make using them a bit more ergonomic (though unsafe operations will still require the `unsafe` keyword, of course). Here's the document describing the new changes: https://github.com/Gankro/rfcs/blob/0048bf68c56dd25cd2afed77...

As an example:

// This:
ptr::read(self.ptr.offset(idx as isize))

// Becomes this:
self.ptr.add(idx).read()

This will be in stable Rust on May 10.
Oh, right, sorry I'm on it! Thank you
You may be interested by the straight.el package manager.

https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el
> And to be fair, revising Article 9 and not going on a romp through the Middle East is also an option. I can see the rationale for doing so, besides right-wing nationalism on Japan's part.

That's definitely a possibility, however removing Article 9 is seen as a threat by China and might be a tactical error. Japan hasn't had any trouble building the defense force. If anything having Article 9 in place is plausible deniability for hostilities against China.
>In the UK our austerity program at the height of 2010-15 was a reduction in the growth of spending (not a nominal cut).

In the UK the cuts were directed - largely at public sector jobs and wages and benefits, foodbanks, etc. You can take £1,000 of money spent on foodbanks or soldier wages and just give it to a military contractor or Carillion and technically public sector spending hasn't been cut by £1000, but the effect is as if it had.

Nonetheless, the effect of austerity in the UK was a lot milder than it was in Greece and, as a consequence, we don't have people waving swastika flags around like they do.
Thanks for the detailed response and suggested approach, I appreciate it. Working my way through the Nomicon looks like a nice goal. Cheers.
> As for refugees, someone who says they have no right to be in Europe should -- in my opinion -- stop calling him- or herself a human being.

This kind of moralistic stance is part of what people drives towards populist parties: being denied even the right to hold an opinion makes people angry. We totally have the right to chose who can come in our country and under which conditions. And that applies to refugees as well. This is not a problem of begin "human" or not, it is about making decisions that will have impact for decades on the European societies.
Might work OK for video/audio (though DeepFakes calls that into question). But what about the timestamp on it? Or what about GPS location (did you even posses the phone at the time? Was the GPS data manipulated later?)?

There will be a huge class of things that basically can't be questioned, denying you the ability to confront your accuser.
You can see the telegram team pulling this off because you aren't in the crypto space. They are claiming to be able to solve open research problems that some of the best minds in the world have been studying for years, and don't have an answer to.

This isn't a matter of one startup failing where another stands a chance. The problems that Telegram is proposing they can solve aren't execution problems. They are unsolved research problems. And some of those problems (like verifiable computing) have been actively researched for decades, well pre-dating cryptocurrency and Bitcoin.

Everybody has blinders on.
I remember always seeing this on the front page of the Ubuntu software centre, never clicked on it though cause back then I strongly preferred simple code editors to IDEs
"Piano sonatas are plain and boring"

What an asinine and uninformed statement
The Redux Type Flow
While I'm not familiar with Blythe, I'd address your comment:

I certainly don't think it _helps_. Take the Keynes quote from the paper, that given an uncertain financial future people wanted "A Change", and a population that took out substantial debt and didn't leverage this effectively may be looking at a very uncertain financial future of their own.

There's also a certain similarity I can see in the psychological impact of inflation, high taxes, and high debt loads without high earning potential, in that they by their nature are difficult to overcome (and in some cases impossible to), and here I'd cite the many prior HN discussions on "the cost of being poor" to throw more wood on that fire.

Finally, they observed in the paper that much of the nazi voting came from those who had the most to loose from austerity, so the fact that student debt is tied to upper middle class doesn't seem to necessarily contradict that possibility either, even if it's within the self-selecting group of those who imposed that debt on themselves in the first place.
Seems like their engineering team had a serious NIH problem. This project should have been all software, and done in partnership with a local CNC-based mill if they couldn’t get some loner equipment / shop time from a manufacturer.
Ask HN: Small paperback CS book recommendation for travel
Hi everyone !

This summer I'll be travelling during my holidays. I would like to have books to read in the plane and during my travel. I need small, lightweight paperback books that can fit in my backpack.

I wanted to know if you knew any good computer science / software engineering books that could match those requirements. All of the CS books I have are pretty big and heavy.

I'm interested in a broad range of subject, such as : big data, artificial intelligence and deep learning, cloud computing, software architecture, functional programming...

Thanks !

Edit : I'm know that i could bring and ereader such as kindle but that's something i would like to avoid for many reasons