skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a parent and I do not see the relevance of YouTube to raising children nor any other tech. What I said is that YouTube is not a public service, you just upgraded them from 'public service' to 'an parental service' and yet you slam me instead of parents relying on entertainment companies to raise their children.

I am trying to raise an interested and independent child with her own interests who goes through this world awake, not a member of the phone-zombies you see everywhere who have a never ending hunger for flashy videos and other entertainment. That there are parents who put their babies/toddlers in a stroller with a phone in their hands is just mind boggling to me.

My daughter is almost a year old and the only time she has ever looked at a screen (including TV) for longer than 10 seconds is when we video call her grandma who lives in another country.
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For me the next question is: how do we encourage everyone to admit the things that they have trouble with and then to rectify the situation?

For instance, a lot of us can read but don't really comprehend. A lot of us don't have the analytical skills necessary to distinguish truth from flim-flam in politics.

It takes guts to do what Corcoran did first, but it takes work to do what comes next. Corcoran did both. It's a pity that such people are not media darlings. The world would be a much better place if the Corcorans of the world were idolized and followed instead of the empty headed media stars that seem so popular now.
The french elections don't use any form of electronic voting system. The interference is given a passing mention with no source whatsoever, what is it talking about?
The fraction is obviously significant to the people trying to make sure airplanes are fully utilized, so this seems like a word game to me. People miss flights all the time.

A brief look for stats doesn't turn up hard data, but TechCrunch has it at ~5%:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/11/overbooking/

Someone who worked in ticketing for two airlines says it's 2% for flights to hubs, and 5-8% for flights from hubs, because of missed connections:

https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-people-who-check-in...

According to IATA, a good year for airline industry profits is circa 5%:

http://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2016-12-08-01.aspx

So even if we take the lowest fraction, 2%, filling those seats represents 40% of the profit margin. That sounds pretty significant to me.
I've told my wife that if I'm ever in a situation where I'm hospitalized and seemingly unable to communicate, to call one of my ham radio friends over, because I'm going to be trying morse code (via blinking, twitching a finger, etc.).
Matlab's fine, but Excel has (had?) some serious defects in the basic statistical functions, in particular, it coundn't reliably calculate a standard deviation.
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Too bad it isn't as if your children only get to see what you show them...
What Is the Internet of Military or Battlefield Things, or IoMT and IoBT?
For the first one, marking an answer correct even if you don't know the person's name is explicitly the correct way to grade it. IMDB isn't ideal because it's so photo-heavy, but if you don't recognize the names you're going to have to look them up somewhere.
An individual fact isn't copyrightable, a collection of facts can be. Details vary by jurisdiction, but in an international project like OSM you have to comply with the strictest jurisdiction
As an alternative to Jupyter UI and Emacs, Hydrogen (https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen) could be viable. It runs as an Atom extension and connects to a Jupyter server instance. I haven't used it for anything other than a minimal project, but I preferred its UX to that of the browser interface of Jupyter. Atom isn't my favorite editor, but it's pleasant for this particular use case. Looks like the same team also offers an Electron-based application instead of an Atom extension.
Totally agreed. I’m not dogmatically agains eminent domain, I just think it’s crazy to use it for private projects.
Wow, I asked for the data that led him to his conclusion about "the monopoly" and he blocked me. So much for open science...

https://twitter.com/paulmromer/status/985529525491654657
I have this as well; I remember faces (and usually where I saw them) even from a young age; I recognize people who I have not seen for 30+ years. It's sometimes annoying when I visit places where I used to hang out a lot and I recognize people passing buy who I have not seen for such a long time; of course they really do not recognize me. Also I recognize faces in different races as well which apparently is something people struggle with.

A bigger issue is that I do not remember names at all; I remember faces and can tell you context ('we were in a bookshop in Utrecht, I was holding an ocaml book') but I cannot remember a name of anyone unless I regularly meet and talk with them. Even when I did work close with people; their faces stay, their names go. It's very weird because I have a good memory otherwise (I remember most telephone numbers I ever had to remember for instance) but names are just complete blanks. Human names, movie character names, movie names, song names, band names; they all are not there when I try to recall them, while I can basically recite the first Pascal program I wrote.

Strange and embarrassing sometimes; I recognize someone immediately and then have to say 'he! how are you and how is your guitar playing going?' (remembering all the context besides the name). My wife has the opposite; she has the cannot recognize faces but remembers all names.

Edit: my skill came in handy when we ran a dating site to get abusers off; I remembered when I saw someone before and removed them again. I can imagine it would work(ed/AI) well in law enforcement.
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I have tried DuckDuckGo in the past and it's pretty good but it doesn't quite have the reach or relevance of Google, at least for the topics I tend to search for.

But perhaps this is because Google tracks me. When I search for "private variable" it knows I'm likely referring to C# as opposed to Java and shows an appropriate result. When I search for "supermarket london" it knows I'm referring to London, UK and not London in Canada.

So perhaps after thinking about it a bit more, what I want isn't feasible.
What society? You mean YouTube? That isn't society, it is a company that has a business model that is based on getting people to waste as much of their time as possible on YouTube so that they can earn money by selling ads to those people. I find it hard to see how YouTube == Society.
Duckduckgo results leave a lot to be desired. Startpage proxies Google for you so you get Google results from an anonymized request.
USSR entered Poland in 1939, long before Allies. Is it your point?

About polls: lies are quick to spread. In 1940, USSR was major enemy to France after Germany. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pike .
To be clear: the allegation is that this was used to try to hack Macron’s campaign, not the election process itself. French election results are totally hand-counted; a “hack” isn’t possible.
The next sentence afterwards is a monstrosity:

"But, I explained to my work colleagues as the Princeton local pulled out from platform eight and late-arriving passengers swished up through the carriages in search of empty seats, both the original Penn Station and its unlovely modern spawn were seen at their creation as great feats of engineering."

I had to highlight between the commas to get through that one.
The fact that uMatrix make sites unusable is a problem with the sites, not uMatrix.

My view is that if you (as a web developer) require code to make something on your site work you should host it yourself as part of your site. If you don’t host it, you actually have no idea what code is making up your site and won’t know if it changes because the third-party hosts will not play into your change control process.

This is how Best Buy was compromised recently - they used 3rd-party code on their site that got changed from under them.
That sounds like exponential reduction in the number of bacteria. How do any bacteria survive with this rate, unless I am missing something.
> By the way, I haven't followed this drama in a few years, but taking a look at what's happening now, it looks like the W3C is essentially just plagiarizing the work of the WHATWG.

Ditto, and it's why if anyone asks about HTML and spec. conformance, I don't even mention the W3C, except to dissuade them from paying any attention to them. Their current HTML work is irrelevant and misguided.

My issue here is more with the historical negationism around the relationship between the organisations. The W3C's current HTML is, frankly, wrong-headed. But the context around their current situation is the fact that they've been bullied, cajoled and even somewhat ridiculed reputationally into these quite irrational actions by the WHATWG's very existence. That fact is lost when they're accused of acting negatively toward the WHATWG (e.g. hi-jacking apparent agreements and processes), when the actual background was WHATWG originally hi-jacking the specification of the web's central language.

Your post here is supporting the idea that the W3C's current direction on HTML is irrational. That's fine, I agree. But what they're doing is no worse than what WHATWG did originally with HTML5; the only differentiator is that WHATWG was extremely powerful (being primary implementors) and could use that power to win hearts and minds of pragmatic developers. The W3C have no such power and as such their wrong-headed actions are fruitless. But the equivalence is still worth pointing out.
I’ve always been impressed by the demo scene but never tried my hand at one because of the insane programming chops needed.

What are your top 3 favorite intros that you would recommend watching?
I share your opinion about the superiority of org-mode as a means to assemble a document out of various pieces. It's not hard to show nicely formatted code, the code's output, the math behind the code and perhaps a graph of the results all in a LaTeX/PDF document and or HTML. All of this can be done with a flat text file that is easy to save as a part of a project under source control.

What I wonder is why are Jupyter notebooks so popular? I've tried them, but perhaps I don't understand the workflow in the way people use them. Are they intended to be works in progress where one explores ideas and looks at results? This is how I've usually used them and Mathematica's notebooks as well.

For me though, my Jupyter or Mathematica notebooks end up with lots of false steps and dead-ends. To prepare a presentable form of the results I have to go back and edit the notebook to such a degree that it doesn't feel like working in a notebook as much as it is working in a complex document with a really weak set of editing tools. To be fair, I haven't used Jupyter or Mathematica for a couple of years and things may have changed. Maybe HN readers can help be understand how to more effectively use these tools.
Before you casually dismiss it as a worthless idea, consider that some victims have fewer capabilities than Bauby was left with.
> Eventually you are going towards direction where you don't want to go ... this is the end of the road for many people.

It sounds like you're saying that moderate meditation is overrated, and more intense meditation is outright detrimental in the long term. That is surprising to me. Is this an inevitability? Did you experience this, and how did you push through it?
yes, this is a troubling statement.

I'd imagine there are some computerized systems between the manual counting and the actual result, but still.
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Human composition of chemicals has evolved over a long period of evolution. Choices stem from this composition. The composition however is not perfect. It has evolved by random mutations with best mutations surviving the environment. Composition is made to learn which decisions and choices come to a good outcome however it is not perfect (falling pray to drugs) or it does not always adaot to fast evolving environment (being addicted to social media).

But the decision and choice itself comes from chemicals of course. It is like asking which was first, the bits in the computer or the calculation it produced.
O no, do you mean that there is YouTube pre-installed on my child's stuffed animals and the books I read to her? What can I do against this? Or did you mean some other object that is suitable for children?
There’s an IT news website in France that proposes that for years. You can pay as small fee (monthly or yearly) and get no more ads and tracking cookies.

It’s working, and they can produce quality content (they also have other submission plans where you get premium content)
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When a compiled binary doesn't run on a different machine with the same hardware, it's probably a problem with dynamic linking. That seems to have been discussed on the issue tracker https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/2003
Alamo Drafthouse has a 70mm print of 2001, and I was lucky to view it a couple of years ago. They even brought the house lights up during the intermission, just like would have been done in 1968. Keep an eye on their announcements - if they run it again, you should travel to Austin to view it.
what do you suggest as decentralized site?
Gunaratana is much more practically oriented than Harris: Here's how you do it, here's what you might experience, here are some problems and potential approaches to them. It also steers clear of cynicism and hostility.
>"Heavy and chronic cannabis usage has been linked to an increase in density, but a reduction in total volume, which resulted in a slight overall decrease in IQ."

I wouldn't put much stock into these type of non-quantitative explanations wherein "this makes that go up which makes this go down", etc.

Usually the researchers measure a bunch of different things, analyze the data in a bunch of different ways, and only publish whatever is "significant". This works at the single lab level and multi-lab level since the "non-significant" results are considered boring and don't get published. By "usually" I mean this is standard behavior. You can call it p-hacking, file drawer effect, and more recently "forking paths":

http://andrewgelman.com/2017/12/29/forking-paths-plus-lack-t...

>"Cognitive function is affected by a variety of parameters and we got more neuroscience to do still."

Sure, that was the case before these studies were done too though.
There are also nice tools like this: https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete

It's quite easy to use and if you don't plan to draw new roads this is the fastest way to fill gaps wherever you are.

The more advanced app would be this: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vespucci

Though I don't have experience with it.
Perry seems in favor of emergency order to bail out coal, nuclear plants
This method disconnects it from your normal language processing. Start by learning simple words so you associate it with your language. You'll be at 20wpm no time.
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These websites are not of a brutalist style. Habitat 67 and the like, while having a plain aesthetic, never did so at any expense of their user's ability to find their way around. These websites are relatively incomprehensible, and categorically closer to deconstructivist than brutalist.

A raised material design button is not ornate, it is plain and simple way to propose an action to a user.
Demo source code is not often released, but there are many exceptions. For example, if you're interested in 4kB intros, look at this: https://github.com/in4k
Since 4kB intros are typically done in a shader, you can also look at https://www.shadertoy.com

For Ctrl-Alt-Test specifically, we put our source code on GitHub (but not the most recent productions)[1]. The tool to minify shaders is also on GitHub[2].

So I think you can get a pretty good idea of how we did it. If you have any question, feel free to ask. I can give more details here, or it can be part of a future blog post.

[1] https://github.com/laurentlb/Ctrl-Alt-Test
[2] https://github.com/laurentlb/Shader_Minifier
StaticGen, open source static site generators
I recently went half way in a project using Erlang back-end but didn't get to a production stage mainly due to political reasons in my organization. Mnesia (Erlang’s distributed database) is remarkable and in the Erlang way it comes completely packaged with the system. My only gripe is that documentation overall is a bit hard once you start digging in. The OTP book mentioned is good but may be a bit dated (but we can figure out what is amiss still). I am not sure whether drivers for accessing external databases such as Mongo, Postgresql etc are actively maintained. (Edit: when I check it now it looks like the drivers are recently updated!)
I had a quick look at the language and checked about my two pet pieves. What does the code look like when handling JSON data? (that is when I slammed the door on Golang) What does the code look like when starting an external process, supplying stdin, args and capturing return code, stdout, and stderr? (that is when I slammed the door on lua). Well, I must say that crystal-lang manages to dodge the bullet twice. It handles both situations quite elegantly. So, yes, I am interested.
If this were the first of its kind yes, but given that there are numerous studies suggesting that exercise is good for the brain its reasonable hypothesis. Rather than a non-story I'd say it adds to a body of evidence for a strong hypothesis.
Actually, the illegal memory access would be undefined behavior, so it's fine for the compiler to assume that it's living in a world where the segfault never happens. Thus, it can optimize away the extra reads. If this weren't allowed, it would be very hard for compilers to eliminate any unnecessary reads.

This sort of optimization reasoning can result in quite surprising behavior: http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...
Are those really from consumer lobbying groups or astroturf? I remember Ralph Nader ran into serious opposition trying to get seatbelts adopted, but that was decades ago.
Unfortunately, Gnome Maps does not provide distances in miles. Yes, I could do the math to convert these, but graphhopper already does that for me. So, it's a nice app, but one missing feature makes it practically useless for me.
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> That's exactly what Waymo does...

People should not care what Waymo does.

There should be an independent body to frame these tests (with enough random stuff thrown in), and have the cars pass them.

It is quite meaning less to make the cars pass tests created by the company itself.

And if you see the videos, none of the people were ever in real danger. Say, where is the test when someone crosses when the car is going to 45mph? I am not asking to put real people in real danger. But just make some robotic dummy (even something on wheels will do), and make it cross without notice infront of the car when it is doing 50+mph.
Sailing is an incredible way to right yourself. I'm reminded of Bernard Moitessier, who almost won the 1968/69 round-the-world race but quit and decided to keep on sailing: why return to civilisation when you've found true peace already? It's a really great example of how the way we live in modern times just isn't great for our psyche.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Moitessier
Cool quote from the beginning section "Computing Sidebar: LISP":

"The machine at the bottom of your consciousness is a strange loop. Having a look at this strange loop is a lot more fun than reading about it."

Awesome. Great style and expectation-setting in the intro portion. From my perspective as a programmer, occasional Vipassana-practicer, and not-speed-reader, and having read only the intro portions, this has piqued my interest enough to sink time into reading.
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The minimum wage seems like an issue that is kept alive so that politicians have something convenient to run on. The rhetoric is already written, the battle lines drawn.
If they actually cared more about the wage than the convenient wedge, they would tie the minimum wage to a cost of living indicator so it wouldn't need to be a crisis every election season. This would leave them free to argue over percentage of cost of living, but clearly, brinksmanship is a feature in their minds.
Wow, what a story. It's great that he told it, too. I've seen in thrown around that 1 in 7 American adults are functionally illiterate, and I can't imagine what kind of life that must be.
For Share Girl, you can block the pages she shares from.

For Meme Boy, a baseball bat to the kneecaps works best.
These complaints about Penn station are also a well-worn cliché.
> Facts like street addresses are not copyrightable.

Google says it is[0]. It might be true because when you get street address from Google, you are also getting the mark on the map for the location. Whether it's true legally or not, it's better to stay away from their data. That is, if you use Google maps, you agree their terms and thus you are not allowed to copy the data.

And btw, I have seen (possibly deliberate) mistakes in street address markers in Bing maps (which is the recommended map[1] to follow for Open street map editors). So don't think that they won't find you if you copy their data).

[0] https://developers.google.com/maps/terms#6-googles-proprieta... (The definition of Content is explained in the following section, which says "... and places data (including business listings). ")

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing_Maps
Not the OP, but it looks to me like reaching the "ultimate goal" and "literally done trying to do anything" references the situation during a opioid high. Contrasting this with other drugs where you actually do things while high.
Not OP but as an atheist for me spiritualism was made concrete when after a meditation session I intuitively knew and felt that myself and the world were the same. I watched at some familiar trees through my windows and felt I and them were the same and actually existed. This sensation brought me great joy and calmness. And then it passed, I was myself again, and the world was again separate from me.

This was some two decades ago. I've never felt anything like that after that, but the memory of the sensation is still very strong.

No drugs. Just the most basic 'lie-down-relaxed-and-watch-at-a-dot' exercise. And wham.

It was pretty cool. I was an adolescent back then and I had decided several years before that logically religion was total BS. Had I been religious I'm sure I would have interpreted my experience as being in direct communion with God. But, I interpreted it as a neurological response to my meditation - which did not make the experience any less spiritual.

The experience did not reveal anything new to me, but it made me feel the truth that we all are one and connected, philosophically speaking.

Feeling is something purely logical discourse seldom provides. This experience was pure feeling. Like, I intuitively feel my legs are part of me. I felt the whole world was part of me. Now, this is at the same time true - or - false. We are made of the same atoms and are interconnected through our actions and the laws of physics. At the same time, it's a bit silly to describe oneself extending beyond ones body. So, one can choose was I enlightened by a fundamental truth or was I just a bit silly after a brief session of neurohacking.
A lot of people make a living sitting in a chair all day. What are we all supposed to do instead? The implications of this are pretty far-reaching.