skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a representative democracy, we have

vote -> candidate who supports general policies -> specific policies

which gives the "tempering effect" that I think you are talking about. However, the step from general to specific is implemented by legislators and therefore, subject to human factors and outside influence.

I'm trying to envision a system where something like [1] is used as the actual voting mechanism, but where you'd remove the actual candidates from the picture, and only vote on your general policy preferences. I haven't thought this out completely. I'm not sure how specific policy legislation would result, and I'm not sure if this still be subject to the tyranny of the majority since we could still have the Abandonment of rationality, for example.

[1]: https://www.isidewith.com/

edit: I've no idea if such a system has a name, or if the pros and cons of such a system have already been spelled out in literature somewhere.
A very interesting trend of pre-packaged Emacs distros happening. Spacemacs and doom-emacs are most commonly known for providing general purpose configurations. Portacle looking as a more focused for a specific use case.

I would like to see this applied to other language environments to lower the barrier to entry. Maybe Erlang, Haskell, Racket, Ocaml.
Ignoring a DMCA takedown isn't illegal, you just potentially lose the "Safe Harbor" protection if someone does decide to sue you.
I have my own ttRSS too, and for a small netbook I have I use newsbeuter[1]. I specially like it because it syncs with ttRSS, so all the feeds and read statuses are kept centralized.

[1] https://newsbeuter.org/
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> The only reason that my old Core 2 Duo is "future proofed" is because useful improvements have slowed down dramatically in the last 10 years.

I have four Core2Duo tower computers that I bought last year for $10 each. Three of them have 8GB of RAM and the other has 4GB. Each one has an Nvidia 1050 or 1060 GPU in it and they run TensorFlow just fine, though the computers are PCIe 2.0, so I'm "only" getting a little over 5 GB/s data transfer between the cards and the CPU. Gigabit ethernet makes that mostly irrelevant.

For the most part, when the GPUs are running all-out on something, the CPU is 75% idle or more.
Markdown is not a replacement for Word. However, you should try StackEdit (https://stackedit.io/) if you just need a quick way to write, preview, and store Markdown files in Google Docs.
From my experience you can increase your luck in life by exposing yourself to more choices. This can be something as simple as having saved up money so you can quit your job whenever you want to. That in turn gives you the "luck" to get a better job if the opportunity presents itself.
Ask HN: How do you end an industry?
Or better yet, how do you build another to displace it?

I'm looking specifically at the ones that prey on human "bugs" - casino, betting, but especially porn.

Maybe not even end an industry, but place some ethical limits, such as when someone starts harming himself you don't let him ruin his/her life, or when other people are exploited (i.e. human trafficking).

Has anyone had similar curiosities?
I am in the same boat, but with a bit more charitable view.

You may not realize it but an education like that will come across in the language you use and the way you present yourself to executives. It won't help in a startup, because there are no executives, only doers, but in a larger company being able to hold a conversation with executives on thier terms and using thier jargon will make you far more effective than someone who can only talk in programming paradigms.
And I, as an informed consumer, acknowledge that the my electronic devices are not going to last more than a few years due to either mechanical failure and/or processing limitations. To counter this, I don't buy the latest and greatest anything. My $60 (USD) Samsung J3 does everything that I ask of it and it feels light-years ahead of the HTC 626s that I bought ~2 years ago for $80. It finally died of mechanical failure and it didn't make me feel anything at all to drop sixty dollars and change on a new model.

I'll never understand the consumer dynamic that allows there to be a never-ending lineup of $800+ phones at every store that sells electronics. Congratulations, your [electronic device] was expensive and in about two years, you're going to need a new one, just the same.
Yeah, I'm also disappointed. 'Fnure' sounds like 8-bit sound effect, but even input samples of flute and snare sound bad. Garbage in, garbage out.

The device is a nice toy, but even they say it's unpredictable. Usually you need about 4 samples per octave and 4 samples for different velocities (note loudness) for professional use. Would NSynth generate all those samples in uniform way so they can work together as a single instrument?
I don't know how realistic that is, but if you're going to try this, I'd recommend the following: as a prerequisite for your doing this they have to permit you to straight off the bat recruit two people internally from the existing sysadmin team.

One should be someone with a deep understanding of the bare metal networking, security, etc. concerns, who's enthusiastic about learning how that translates to an AWS environment. S/he will advise you to make sure you get that part right, and hopefully pick up enough to pitch in to design and build your infrastructure.

The other should be someone with a strong understanding of the old bash scripting who's interested in learning modern devops scripting. They'll help you translate the old scripts to new paradigms and eventually help you build out the rest.

Both of these people will have to be fast learners willing to spend the first month or so learning the essentials. Make sure you have funding from management to support whatever video tutorials, online courses, etc. they need to get up to speed.
I use asciidoc (via asciidoctor), which is based on Docbook and therefore supports a lot more complex document features. Its PDF export is quite excellent IMO, and doesn't require LaTeX (though it can go through LaTeX).
It's still very early days, but Bitwise is interesting (https://github.com/pervognsen/bitwise)

There's also Handmade Hero (https://handmadehero.org/)

The Raytracing books by Peter Shirley are also very interesting, starting with "Raytracing in one weekend" (https://www.amazon.com/Ray-Tracing-Weekend-Minibooks-Book-eb...)

And lastly there's Crafting Interpreters (http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/)
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I appreciate your adhering to the letter of the law, but I'm clearly speaking about ideals. In most democracies, laws are not the final world. We have the ability to change the laws based on our ideals as life evolves.

At one time, we were quite free in many countries, but large corporations have put strangleholds on free speech, a fact so well-documented I'm not compelled to source it here.

W/r/t your non-sequitor on fradulent stock prospectuses, that's moving the goalposts quite a bit from cryptocurrency advertising. It's so far afield, I'm struggling to understand why you included it in this discussion, but out of respect for you, I'm attempting to connect it to the previous ideas about cryptocurrency offerings. It seems you're implying cryptocurrency advertising is, by definition, fraud? Is that the case? Do you care to elucidate?

I posted my open questions because we should be thinking about what we want for societies around the world, not merely conforming to legal precedents set by corporate entities.
All the EU institutions are just a decoy. EU policy is whatever German Chancellor wants, because the whole EU runs mostly on German money. Not so long ago it was said to be French-German duopoly, but France has fallen behind economically since then.

And if you don't believe me, please recall who was calling shots when the "refugee" crisis first broke. Noone gave a damn about what the Head of EU Commision, Mr. Juncker has to say, everyone was waiting for Angela Merkel to make up her mind.
I've tried to switch to Markdown almost completely for portability, but I end up having to return to Word frequently to accomplish certain features. IMO, Markdown's biggest flaw was that the original feature set was incomplete, and everyone has tried to fill in the gaps (TOC, tables, references, etc.) their own way instead of settling on an updated standard. That makes it really frustrating when I've got to rely on GitHub-flavored Markdown to accomplish something without being able to trust that it will work on a platform that only supports vanilla Markdown, etc.

One thing I will give Word credit for, despite all my qualms with it, is that it's probably the only program that I can blindly paste something from my clipboard and expect that Word will render it reasonably well.
Because the majority of advertising is for mundane products, which are unlikely to influence people politically.
There is a distinction between const and non-const static memory, though, in that the former can be stored in Read-Only Memory. Still, static memory is generally used for many fewer purposes than the stack or the heap, and if I understand correctly, sbrk is still working with the heap, just more manually.
No, it won't. Portacle is 100% self-contained and does not modify anything outside its home directory.
tl;dr: no, and the issue here is that gravitons probably aren't like what you're thinking. (and it's not a dumb question).

In perturbatively quantized gravity, we start with a background metric (e.g. Minkowski flat spacetime or Schwarzschild black hole spacetime) and then "perturb" it with other moving matter. With a careful choice of slicing of the 4-spacetime into 3+1 space+time, we can see the (leading order) deviations from the background metric as a plane wave propagating lightlike from one spacelike slice to the next. Quantizing those waves in much the same way as we quantize classical electromagnetic planar waves leads to the graviton as a massless boson (but with spin-2 instead of spin-1).

A spherically symmetric non-rotating black hole (and having factored out changes in coordinate position and linear momentum by choice of coordinates) sources exactly the Schwarzschild metric, so there is no perturbation from a Schwarzschild background (and thus no gravitational waves to quantize, and thus no gravitons in the vincinity). If we throw something into it, there will be a perturbation of the exterior metric, and thus gravitons in principle observable outside the horizon.

There are theories that define a graviton, and the result ought to be the same: you generally only get (real rather than virtual) gravitons when something is falling into a (maximally symmetric) black hole (and very shortly afterwards, during "balding"), or:

If you break the Schwarzschild symmetries by adding angular momentum and/or charge to the black hole, you can also get perturbations of a well-chosen background metric, although extremely little gravitational radiation (and thus few gravitons) unless something massive is sufficiently near the black hole.

But just to repeat: an isolated non-rotating black hole emits no gravitons. You need to perturb it out of its highly symmetrical state in order to get gravitons. [cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave?oldformat=t... -- for a black hole the relevant configurations are a significant "bump" on an otherwise highly symmetric black hole or a significant mass creating a "barbell" style binary]
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Ask HN: Fear of getting on planes obstructing career
Hi HN,

I'm looking for some advice.

I got a new job. It is my dream job at a company I've wanted to work at for a long time now. It's perfect, except for just one thing.

I'm going to have to do some long-haul flights (10-12 hours). And, I know it sounds crazy, but there is no place I'd rather be less than on a plane: trapped inside a small, cramped, flying metal box with 400 people for 10-12 hours. I get claustrophobic and panicked.

I don't know what to do, and I fear I might have to quit before I've even started and go somewhere else that doesn't require travel. I'm going to start seeking expert help for this phobia, but I don't think I'll be able "fix it" any time soon, let alone before I would have to fly.

Looking for your collective advice,

Thanks!
>> It could be that the results were built into the model’s design.

>Every true mathematical proposition is a tautology. I don't find this point particularly convincing. As long as the model's predictions match reality in interesting ways, it can lend possible insights on why reality might have certain characteristics.

I think the problem is that nothing about the model lines up with reality. For example:

- Each agent begins with an identical amount of capital. -- nothing like the real world.

- Every 6 months you have the possibility of doubling or halving your capital. -- nothing like the real world.

- Chance of doubling capital is proportional to talent. -- nothing like the real world.

As an argument for such a simple model they provide:

> The previous agents’ rules are intentionally simple and can be considered widely shareable, since they are based on the common sense evidence that success, in everyone life, has the property to both grow or decrease very rapidly.

Sure, success/failure _can_ increase or decrease rapidly, but is it the rule? Arguing the basis of your entire model on "common sense" seems weak. It would be better if they had provided at least some real world data where this pattern emerges. In my experience people seem to move a little bit up or down from their baseline, but I have never personally seen a swing from rags to riches or the other way around.

If they had begun by drawing parallels to the ways in which we see the real world and letting the model simulate it into the future it would be more compelling. As it stands, it seems like a set of arbitrary rules designed to reach their desired conclusion, albeit weakly through "it looks pretty similar".
America's aversion to the role of luck is based on the Protestant work ethic. There is no chance and everything is predetermined by God's grace. God's grace is demonstrated by hard work, frugality, and discipline. There is a concept of double predetermination where you already need to be saved to be saved. Which means the poor is poor not because of chance, but because they lack God's grace.
Oh, it's the same author? I'm definitely looking forward to this, then.
Build your own React (https://github.com/hexacta/didact).
Agreed, but things like that attempted Lords amendment to legally require the govt to guarantee the rights of UK expats living in Europe - something not within the govt's power, and therefore sending them to a gunfight with a wooden spoon at the negotiating table - was equally dishonest. I hope you won't dispute that some attempts genuinely are trying to overturn the vote, and often say so quite openly.
This is a distortion.

Young men see rich men with beautiful women flying to anywhere they want on the planet. Only a few of them will get that when they're older, and it oftens boils down to intelligence, work ethic, cleverness, other abilities like athletics and looks, and a few lucky breaks that they take advantage of. Exceptions being inherited wealth. Law of averages, those who do make it are hard working and intelligent. Law of averages, those who do not are often less so. However, everyone still wants the hot girl and the jet. So what's the right thing to do? Take "power" from [Hard working and intelligent]U[Scott Disick, Donald JR] to normalize influence across everyone? Should the group, who by and large, has contributed more to the society not have proportionally more say? And then the issue becomes more nuanced when you take into account inheritance and things of that nature.
> A very interesting trend of pre-packaged Emacs distros happening. Spacemacs and doom-emacs are most commonly known for providing general purpose configurations. Portacle looking as a mor

Bozhidar Batsov's Prelude[0] is another excellent one. It's got a lot of good pre-selected choices, and almost no bad ones. I can highly recommend it.

[0] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude
This sounds like the second most important worry a prepper would have: "I'm now prepped for a disaster; therefore, expect looters to come say hello." You better be bulletproof for your plan to work ;o)
test in peace, it doesn't interfere with your emacs config or anything else :)
I didn't give any definition to talent, I just said that it is related, very closely, to luck so I don't see how you can oppose them to each other.

I see it similar to asking "what is more important for a fruit - the peel or the meat?" while you can't have one without another, both are there together making a fruit what it is :)
Worth pointing out in a tongue-in-cheek way... Effort alone is useless, execution is what is important. One of the things you learn in an MBA program is how to tell the difference. :-)
dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16551072
For about the last 15 years the compiler will generated the same code in either case. Thats really old advice!
The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: Anecdotes from AI Researchers
It makes fairly logical sense. Neanderthals were fairly well-installed in Europe when modern humans appeared in Africa. As modern humans would have expanded northward into Europe, done their thing with the Neanderthals, (some breeding, lots of killing), and continued eastward, so the human population still in Africa would probably have no Neanderthal DNA, but the population in Asia would carry the results of some interbreeding with Neanderthals.

The question this brings up is how different are Neanderthals from Homo sapiens? I was taught that the definition of a species is that two individuals could reproduce and have fertile offspring. It seems there are exceptions to this rule, (as Neanderthals and Homo sapiens are different species).
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Telling the Truth about C.I.A. Torture
Luck certainly compounds.
But in what way is banning all cryptocurrency-related advertising equivalent to publishing false prospectuses? It's not. There are infinite legitimate uses of advertising w/r/t cryptocurrency.

I agree we should disallow and punish publishing false prospectuses, but I disagree that cryptocurrency advertising should be completely banned from google. I think it's an overreach of monopolistic power.

As a corporate entity, google has too much power to choose what competing businesses succeed, and social progress spreads. I don't even own or have any interest but passing in cryptocurrency, but I don't see why they shouldn't be allowed to make their businesses, subject of course to financial regulations.
I am following bitwise very closely, particularly to get better at C. Any companion text/resource that I should follow along?
Inequality is intensely tied to social mobility. Check out the Great Gatsby Curve or this talk on snowball inequality. The common sense way to think of it is that as the rich entrench themselves further and further apart from the rest of us, it becomes harder and harder to jump the gap, the rich stay rich, the poor stay poor and we move from meritocracy to aristocracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gatsby_curve

https://voicerepublic.com/talks/snowball-inequality-meritocr...
"I once asked Rupert Murdoch why he was so opposed to the European Union. 'That’s easy,' he replied. 'When I go into Downing Street they do what I say; when I go to Brussels they take no notice.'"
GitHub has a networking effect with other open source projects, same as Facebook or Google.

When Google decides you're not gonna show up in the search results, as much as 90% of your traffic could be gone. A business can (and have) go belly up for not showing up in page 1 of the search results.

IMO if a service crosses a certain threshold of networking and marketshare they should be regarded as a public utility rather than a private business. The other option is to give such corporations an incredibly amount of power over what the population thinks, sees or, in github's case, codes.
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1. Council/Local government websites sometimes include a comment thread.

2. Probably not, usually it's done via social media, e.g. Twitter mention.

3. Doubt it, that would be a personal arrangement.
> Uninformed? Corruption, uhm I mean lobbying?

Just a quick note, the intention of lobbying is to help politicians - people with the power but not the knowledge - make informed decisions by getting industry experts to advise them.

The problems exist because those industry experts are almost always going to be working in the industry (that's why they're experts). Accordingly, those advisors are always going to want what's best for them, and will be sure to tailor their advice accordingly. And if it's even remotely legal to "enhance" advice with money, of course it will be done.
Washington, DC Teaming with Audi on Vehicle-To-Infrastructure Technology
The author's earlier project, learnopengl.com, helped me catch up to modern OpenGL after having been away from OpenGL since shortly after it became Open. (I learned iris GL first.) Looking forward to the Vulkan version.
I don't think they had tobacco in the 1050s.
"Starting this week, drivers of select new Audis who approach more than 600 intersections in the District, can know when the light will turn green, by glancing at their dashboards."
I'm not too familiar with the Apple ecosystem, although I own a pair of Airpods & an S8, they work surprisingly well together.

Is it possible to store music for offline playback on the Watch and pair it with your Airpods for listening on the go? I'm not a fan of running/cycling with my phone so a Watch/Airpod combo sounds super useful to ditch the phone. I understand I'd need an iPhone for the Watch but I'm just curious if this use case would be possible.
for what it's worth you can define pagebreaks with css [0].
it's not the most user-friendly way, but works.
the @page rule also comes in quite handy

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/page-break-...
I think you are conflating cryptocurrency with blockchain-based DApps; they are different animals. See e.g. here advertised Origin protocol's whitepaper to understand threat vector for Amazon's dominance. Cryptocurrencies are IMO just a neat alpha version of what could be possible, a testing playground somebody took way too seriously; their current implementation is seriously underwhelming (i.e. <30tx/s). While neither Amazon nor Google take blockchain seriously publicly, their VC arms do.
This is what I want. My goto editors are Pages on the mac for heavy formatting, and Google Docs for everything else. I'd love to use Markdown more, but writing your text in one window and viewing it in another is very 1982. It just isn't good enough.
and perhaps doesn't realise that .docx is just zipped XML
Presumably they do something with that wealth like invest it in a more profitable company or one with better prospects. If the company is unprofitable with their resources they’re destroying wealth which doesn’t serve the economy or society.
> Coming from where I've been through, I actually see this law proposal opening the playfield for smaller entities.

How, when it imposes additional costs upon said entities?
I agree with your comments, but I want to add to it. I agree that wealth inequality leads to power inequality. And I agree that curtails freedom. But I think it also tends to societal instability. Closing the loop, we care about wealth inequality because we don't want society to collapse.
Why does this need to be a 2D simulation? I don't see how geometry comes into it at all. Also worth reading http://bactra.org/weblog/491.html
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