skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know enough to determine which part is the most important, but this sounds interesting:

> In animals, complete global ischemia causes complete electrical inactivity (ie, isoelectricity) of affected gray matter within about 20 to 40 seconds. This cerebral silencing is regarded as an austerity program to curb neuronal energy usage by the shutdown of nonessential cell functions well before the neuronal adenosine triphosphate (ATP) pool is depleted and prospects of tissue recovery vanish. [...]

> Despite this austerity program, sodium and calcium always leak into cells and potassium leaks out. [...] When a threshold level of failure, usually reached 1 to 5 minutes after nonspreading depression, has rendered the ischemic tissue isoelectric, neurons then undergo abrupt, nonlinear rundown in the ion gradients across the cellular membranes. This depolarization develops en masse from either one or multiple foci and spreads in the tissue as a self-propagating wave.

Attempted TLDR: Not enough fresh blood and neurons go into a crisis mode to stay alive. However, they keep leaking electrically-important stuff, and once past a point there's a fast-spreading wave of doom through the neuron that really kills it.
The other reply mentioned tools and documentation, which are the big differentiators in my opinion, but there are also some language level tools in Elixir which feel more "modern" I guess, the macro system which is on part with Lisp, protocols, a consistent standard library which extends Erlang rather than replacing it (although it does duplicate some things, both because binaries are the default string type in Elixir, and because OTP has a bit of an annoying problem with switching the position of the subject), and some conveniences like pipelines, the `with` construction - basically it produces something which semantically is like Erlang at its core, but how you go about solving problems in it offers a lot more options, which oftentimes result in a lot less code written for the same effect.
It would shift more of the web to non-ad-funded. People would get more of their info from venues without ads carrying disinformation, from whatever source.
This, to me, sounds like the zombie apocalypse we were promised.
Does IGN review books now? I genuinely don't see any conflict here.
Wow, that is incredible.
Agreed for imaging and ML, but fp16 is kind of crappy for audio. It adds noise at -66 dB relative to the signal at every operation, which you can definitely hear. Audio data is never so large that memory bandwidth is significant, so you should use fp32.
Completely off topic - but is the Android Gradle builder fully open source, or does it contain specific binary-only components ?!

(i.e. can i build the builder itself from source code ?!)
Elon Musk says the Boring Company’s Loop will prioritize pedestrians, cyclists
I don't know that there are medical studies showing positive results for any single factor. I've seen videos making the case for vitamin K2 and D3, as well as metformin. You will need to do your homework on this, ideally with a doctor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulemSPBA3DA
The Programmable Network: Treating the Network as Code
John Oliver explains Bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies
See other comments about metafilter.
Nice article but the author should avoid making sweeping generalizations like the one in the very beginning: they state that they haven’t “found a case where [cherry-picking is] actually good.” They then go on to detail a specific place where cherry picking doesn’t make sense (and I agree with the author in that specific case) but I can easily imagine several scenarios where it makes more sense to cherry-pick.

Consider the following as an example. You cut a release branch, and after that branch you realize a bug and fix it on master. Turns out that bug later is more critical than previously thought, so what better way to pull it down to the release branch than a cherry-pick?
Former Googler explains how creative freedom can turn people into entitled jerks
Once an unreliable CA gets "trusted" and its public key added to browser bundles, that's when they can pivot to allowing undetectable surveillance of traffic, by allowing access to private keys. Things like local DNS poisoning, etc, are all easy to do, and if you can create your own www.google.com certs temporarily, there's no limit to how much traffic you can acquire.
The parent was probably referring to laws pertaining to secrets, not laws that themselves are secret.
That must depend on the neighborhood - I don't see any of that.
> I see no evidence of that.

I would encourage you to look at the evidence.

> A fashion magazine doesn't outsource its content production to its subscribers.

And?
Do most people learn well from traditional methods though?

If dropping out of a MOOC involved a big financial hit, social humiliation, and the loss of a great deal of personal freedom, the completion rates would skyrocket. Completely different incentives.

The reasoning that traditional education is successful because it has high completion rates because of external pressures is a bit circular, isn't it?
Minecraft wasn't marketed at all, outside of some posts on the Indie Gaming Source dev forums. Its explosive success was entirely word-of-mouth. Of course Microsoft is pushing it all over now that they own it, but it was a megahit long before that happened.
Not sure what all the downvotes are about. I tend to respond positively to sarcasm and cynicism. So, one (1) upvote for you.
When I was a child, I had to do what we called at home "les pages d'écriture" ("the writing pages"). Before I was "allowed" to go out and play (a figure of speech, I had every liberty to roam anywhere), I had to write the alphabet on ten pages, following a canonic form. All had to look good, no cheating or I had to write two good pages for one bad page.

This is the "process" my siblings enforced with me, as our parents enforced with them before I was born.

I had new teachers in primary school accuse me of not being the one who did my homework because it was an adult's handwriting. I had to write in front of them to disculpate myself. My handwriting now is not fabulous, but it's legible.

My point is that you can find a canonic form and go at it as you would everything. Systematic improvement, tight feedback loop, continuous corrections.

PS: The "process" was adapted and writing was just a part of it: I had to read texts from books and magazines, look up words I didn't understand in a dictionary (Larousse 89), write them down and learn them, then write a summary of the text, and present it in front of one of my siblings, my sisters (oral summary) and they would test my understanding (the articles were from Science & Vie and dealt with science and engineering, the books were classics in French, and I would try to the best of my ability to summarize and reason by analogy and share my mental model).

This started before going through K-12 and was in addition to homework.
Consider my view on bing changed.
The first "apology" for terrorism I read was Elie Weisel's dawn. Great read, but learning about his personal support for irgun really makes you doubt his eligibility for a peace prize.
At first it may seem alien to think about negative brightness but it really is necessary when dealing with different color spaces.

The area inside the "RGB" color triangle is represented by positive (non-negative) values. The sRGB color triangle only covers some part of the colors that physically can exist. If you have colors outside the sRGB color triangle at least one component will turn negative.

Not all colors you could represent by RGB-values do actually exist. You can even define a bigger color triangle covering all colors that exist with positive values but also some colors that don't exist.

It doesn't physically make sense but it is a very useful tool when doing calculations. By using floating point of sufficient precision you have to worry less about how you calculate your things. It's not needed but useful. If you know your calculations well you probably don't need float.

Here is an image of some color triangles and what area they cover: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_space#/media/File:CIE193...
I see the problems you describe, but if you sell the rights in auctions you once again boil it down to the one-dimensional metric of money. I think not just how much one is willing to pay, but also what it'll be used for, is relevant.
I'd say hierarchical credibility. More authority. Give the leaders power to bless others with disproportionate power, who in turn have the ability to bless others with disproportionate power.

Remember that Reddit ultimately only imparts one vote per person regardless of whether you're an admin or moderator or whatever. End that system. We've already established that these systems are not libertarian - the leadership has an opinion (in /r/Science the opinion is that you must post good science) and we want to empower them to enforce it.

Not only that, but provide negative feedback. If you endorse a terrible person, make it impact your credibility.
same here about buying a better router.
In my case, was an ASUS RT-ACRH17 AC1700. Best USD70 bucks spent on 2017´s xmas.
How can I read up on these land policies?
We haven't really tried "real identities". We've come close.

Real identities would require verification, which sites like FB only do after the fact.

I fear that a huge repercussion of the election issues is that we will get there. A real ID may be required for you to post comments in all websites. And i'm not sure how I feel about that. Reality is that it would drastically reduce comment trolling, if your real identify was viewable and searchable by all you know. But at what cost?

I really do wonder what is the root of trolling. What makes a "normal" person take an alter-ego/view/counter view, solely based on lack of face to face interaction...
Note that using the interface ITuple instead of the tuple types directly will incur boxing (memory allocation for reference type instance).
Real identities doesn't work when FB threads aren't indexed by Google.

If googling myself found comments I'd make on "platform X," you can be sure I'd carefully consider my comments on that platform.

Having anonymous commenting is important, but if you want a less toxic platform for mainstream comments, real identities + indexing is a good start.

The real WTF moment for online discussion is yet to come. When ML chatbots are able to comment indistinguishably from human comments, purely as a measure of capacity of time/scale, comment threads are eventually going to just become chatbots arguing with chatbots, drowning out actual discussion by humans.
Toxic statements = statements from a different political orientation

Why are people so willing to embrace Orwellian doublethink? My prediction is that such a sword will do decapitate undeserving people of all political aisles.
And who determines what's true and what's not?
I also just started learning rust over the past few weeks. While I'm still grasping with some of the core concepts of the language (like ownership), I do feel like there's adequate documentation and resources out there that I'll get there. What I really like is how helpful the compiler is. It's fast and the errors feel well explained and relevant to the problem in my code. It almost feels like I'm developing on a REPL.

Rust seems to have a very ruby-like approach in trading ceremony for conciseness, and while I feel I will eventually learn to appreciate that more, it does present a challenge while learning. It seems like there are a lot more symbols that have significant meaning in rust - where an average language might only have a few dozen or so "core" symbols that I must learn to use the language, rust has quite a lot more, and many of them follow idioms that I don't recognize from any other language (most of my experience is a pretty typical web dev background). It definitely makes learning by example hard (from actual userland code, not the excellent beginner focused hosted tutorial).

Although maybe it just feels this way because I'm on the start of a long journey of understanding and perhaps things look a little bigger than they are.
They should launch some lightweight AR glasses for developers, extending laptops with virtual screens, basically like additional monitors for laptops over an USB-C dongle. They (FB) have already a good standing among web and mobile developers, why not try it with hardware too.
Big Sugar Versus Your Body
Rather than censorship, just give readers better filtering tools. This was largely solved on USENET years ago, has been largely solved in email (to a great degree) -- it's just Twitter, FB, etc. which seem to have a hard time solving it.

If you made certain sets of filters the default, or available in groups, and did filtering based on your best beliefs about the desires of readers (based on keywords, senders, and maybe other characteristics of the conversation), it would go a long way.
Who is "we" in this context? I'd submit that there is no "we" capable of accomplishing this goal effectively for the long term.
Considerable progress has been made: http://web.worldbank.org/archive/website00819C/WEB/PDF/PERU_...
Ah OK interesting I think I get what you are saying in that given an authority figure's specification, the student in a class will be far more likely to succeed at reaching that arbitrary externally imposed spec than a MOOC subscriber.

With the side issue that 100% of everyone in my 20 person automata theory class back in ninety-something is a much smaller number than 2% of 24000 people signing up for Ullman's automata theory MOOC.

The fundamental problem is authority along with excessive broadness. If I want to learn Y and the MOOC teaches X Y and Z, I will fail the MOOC. There are also Skinner box conditioning issues where my assignment for something like using bootstrap framework, will be scratching my own itch of project or doing some project at work, such that again I'll fail the MOOC because I'll refuse the assignment; I already have a more ambitious self assigned assignment and am not doing both my assignment and someone elses much less interesting assignment. Whereas if I sit in class I'll have peer pressure and financial pressure to do the class assignment regardless of work or hobby interests.

Sort of a traditional in-person or online class is a goal in and of itself; MOOCs are a means to an end for work or hobby for most.
It's a culture of apathy to everything except legal threat. Look up the beginnings of Google Adwords. The only thing they cared about initially was launching - forget everything until someone threatens you with a lawsuit.
Dear God I wish they would do another 0 new features release.

It used to be that the excuse was bug fixes don’t sell. Maybe not, but buggy software does lose customers. They may bring in the newbies with features, but you retain with bug fixes.
Great - I'm glad that's a better fit for you :)

You can accomplish 'executing an app directly' with a sub-shell like this:

$ (eval $(envkey-source) && run-app-command)

That way, the variables won't be exported in the parent shell.
Unfortunately, while this works, it does not align with the goals of the companies running these forums-- to get as big as possible, to get the biggest valuation and/or slice of advertising dollars as they can. Even small monetary barriers to entry decrease participation substantially, and that's just not acceptable.

This is why I'm quite pessimistic about the current situation: the current in-vogue business model of surveillance/advertising capitalism demands massive size beyond what can be moderated, and thus makes this problem inevitable. And it only gets worse when the most toxic users are the most profitable, viz. Twitter's refusal to ban Donald, even though by any reasonable interpretation of their TOS, he breaks it every other day.
> The top 1% earn 20% of all income. If you got rid of them, everyone could get a 20% raise.

No, that's clearly wrong. If the top 1% get 20% of the income, redistributing their income to everyone else would give everyone else a 25% raise.

20% of 100 is 25% of 80.
I'm an average programmer, but I honestly don't get the goal of inclusiveness [edit: from the Rust 2017 Survey Results]

> Diversity and inclusiveness continue to be vital goals for the Rust project at all levels.

I mean.. lifetime checks won't stop working if you don't consider yourself heterosexual or anything o.O
The two matters simply don't mix in my head
(I created the wiki). That's only because it's easiest to bootstrap quickly from current ML glossaries. If you'll notice, there is a 'Knowledge Tree' that also includes robotics, planning, logic, etc. I work in robotics so definitely don't think AI is just ML. All that stuff is under wanted pages. Feel free to sign up and start writing those up!
This is the story of Lawrence, music’s last true enigma
I made a new account about a week or so ago. Their new user form looks very much like you need an email to create an account, but you can just press continue without adding one, despite there being no indication of that. If I hadn't already known I didn't need an email, I would have either given them one or left the site and not returned, depending on how I felt giving them my email address.
> Saint Reagan (/s) dismantled a bunch of the infrastructure to help those with mental illness in the name of, say it with me now, "Efficiency of the private sector".

"Saint Reagan" hasn't been President for about 30 years, and hasn't been governor of California for about 40. Perhaps it's time to stop blaming him for things?

Why didn't Saints Clinton and Obama (on the national level) or Saints Brown, Davis, or Brown II: Electric Boogaloo (on the state level) fix these problems?
Types, and why you should care
What if a sampling of your comments floated around you in AR. Dystopian? Probably, but it would force you to face consequences.
> I don't see anybody citing theft

That's because it is a concept that doesn't exist. Creating a copy in violation of copyright is not theft.

Copyright is the right to limit others ability to create copies. That limitation doesn't involve things that can be stolen.
> And luckily so, otherwise we would be jobless in a few years or so.

I don't think so. You know those painful conversations with people who "have a great idea", but can't actually make it? It's not because they don't have technical skills (although they don't) - it's because they're not trained in thinking to the level of detail that implementation actually requires.

Someone needs to "program the AI" (whatever that ends up meaning). That'll still be us, even if it doesn't require any code, because at some point what code actually is telling something what you want it to do.

It's "the same" leap as from machine code to compilers, domain-specific languages, garbage collection, etc. You describe what you want to happen at some level of abstraction, and something interprets that to actually make it happen.

The level of detail you, as the programmer, have to directly describe goes down over time, but you still deal with far more details than most other people.
A few minutes reading /r/The_Donald shows that there is a vast difference between saying "that guy on the internet hurt my feelings" and "this is a threat to civil society."
I agree, on areas of general topics (news, current events, et cetera), the comments are cancer. As more comments are posted, racism/sexism/ageism/horribleness approaches 1.

The comment section changes a lot if you stick with tech sites and peoples' blogs, or project sites like github/gitlab/hackaday.io . In those cases, people are 99% of the time pretty decent. They may demand a feature on a FLOSS git* page, but aside of entitlement attitudes, it's relatively non-poisonous.
There is a fundamental approach that has not been tried as yet

- Incentives

The real-world has that figured out long ago. If you find something that is truly useful & timely, you would be willing to pay real money for it.

Google Answers (answers.google.com) had tried an approach wherein a price can be put on a question and any legit reply which answers that q can claim it. 'Reputation' definitely still plays a role in this, but the system is flexible enough to allow a new comer to attempt answering a question & stake a claim to the funds.

The real-world has many of these aspects sorted out, like calling a plumber or a carpenter from your neighborhood to get your work done. The problem is we have embarked on creating a 'global' network (aka FB) without first having adequately understood how to create strong family & community network, before we go global with our social networking..
An echo chamber is the only real option. Computers are unaware of concepts of good or evil, so at best a moderation algorithm can do is enforce a certain viewpoint. The question is what viewpoint? The viewpoint of the consensus of users, or the viewpoint of the community leadership?
There's a radio program in my country featuring two country-famous (war|geopolitical)-strategists. They discuss worldnews every week. Lately, China's dominance was the topic, and the phrase "USA only has two things: a nice weapons industry and Silicon Valley" stuck with me. As I thought about it the days after, I could not really find anything to beat the quote with. Only the dollar can maybe come in as a third; but even that has significant competition from the euro and increasingly the yuan.
> For business and productivity apps, React Native offers reasonable performance, cross-platform compatibility, incredible tools (the best being from Microsoft. Hello, relevance! Welcome back!)

When he says Microsoft has the best tools for React Native, does he mean something like ReactXP [0]? Or Does he just mean Visual Studio Code?

[0] https://microsoft.github.io/reactxp/
Stunning photos of trains in the American West
What a baseless comment marinated in rich whataboutism. There is always another avenue for news or entertainment posing as news. Because of the massive social footprint of an organization like Facebook, regulation is warranted and in fact, over due.
These people are just as noxious in real life even if some of them hide it when their identities are known.

I suspect most of them are rather pathetic in real life.
Can it create a small faq based on the summary, e.g. q) What happens i upload a photo to this website? a) the website owns it and can use it anywhere q) what happens when i give them my e-mail? a) be prepared to recieve lots of promotional email from them and third party sites, etc..

Also if there was a sample on the home pageit would be great since I'm on a mobile and can't open Chrome store right now
There’s a Currency Miner in the Mac App Store, and Apple Seems OK with It
Sounds like a myth to me.

People in houses without running water do, in fact, own bathtubs and do, in fact, take baths. I know, because I've been one of them.
I don't know about Windows, but for unices there's RPM and DPKG.
>2. Don't use passwords.

>It's 2018. Passwords are really not a good way to secure your system. You're going to end up building an email-based password reset system anyway right? So just cut to the chase and use magic-link based login only. It's pretty easy to do securely.

I'm no security expert but isn't email notoriously insecure? I also find checking my email every time I have to log into a service or app is poor user experience. Are there better even more secure ways of implementing a no password system?
I guess in those historical egalitarian cities they had a more egalitarian family structure? What a load of codswallop
HN generally works very well. The echo chamber problem is due to allowing downvotes IMO. In my experience that simply leads to minority viewpoints being downvoted. Instead, downvotes should be removed, and people should be allowed to flag abusive comments.