skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think humans are exclusively entitled to "grok"? Can ants transcend as well or was reallity waiting for us to come along and access the normally inaccessible?
There's also recoll, a document indexer and search tool, which I've heard is pretty good.
Points made there:

1) The proposed transaction is a dilution. It reduces the value of everyone else's Ether by a payout to Parity.

2) Businesses which use the Etherium system but aren't closely associated with the insiders are at a disadvantage when the insiders can recover from their mistakes, but outsiders cannot.
I had a limited experience with this type of meditation/abstinence. I called it something like "pleasure/ sensory reduction" and sought to re-sensitize myself to stimuli. I didn't talk, accept by accident or for my part time job for 2 weeks. It was an excellent experience. My main take away was that we often are compelled to speak but it adds nothing and is somehow typically better remaining silent where you instead become a better listening. So my experience may have been more to do with the social dynamics of speaking. I also abstained from other forms of pleasure, all drugs and mindless recreation things (TV, music etc) which continued for 3 months afterward but I worked on writing and music projects or anything I deemed productive rather than mindless. The whole experience was interesting but I returned to my normal state soon after as though it had all been a dream. I think a true silent retreat would give you a more internally focussed experience which would be wholey different. Either way you may benefit. Try to experience lower-level stimuli for extended periods as there is a tendency to filter out (or turn the gain down on) experiences when we bombard our senses constantly.
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Are you aware of georgism? The only taxed thing is land. I wonder if it could work.
Does anyone else see a fairly strong network effect with versioning software? Most TCL users seem to use fossil. Most web developers use git. A bunch of impressive, older software uses svc. Huh.
Firefox has multi-container, it's pretty close.
Well, there's this: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
If I install a custom bios, it doesn't matter where the VM images are stored, or what format they are stored in. The bios can read them all.
Disclaimer: I do not recall my bank undoing my transaction. Ever, that is.

But, yes, I assume that banks do undo transactions somewhat regularly. And I do see a difference. With regards to the banks, there are regulatory bodies with necessary tools to oversee banks and force (of course, they do fail occasionally...) them to behave properly. With Ethereum, there is no such body, but I am expected to trust a bunch of people who claim to have developed a currency which requires no trust. The oxymoron in the last sentence is in itself enough for me to prefer banks, thank you very much.
I've read the study referenced in the video, specifically the Gilens and Page, "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" published in 2014.

It's a really good study and worth reading. I've used the same study in a video I later made:

https://fightthefuture.org/videos/does-voting-make-a-differe...
I’ve seen google search work well for distribution.
I kept with firefox through it all but started use Chrome for dev exclusively.
The only reason I stuck with firefox was Tree Style Tabs.

While I'm delighted at their recent improvements, I still can't help but wonder if they are putting the ~500 million they get each year to good use.

There are still features in the browser that are quite lacking:

- history -> history viewer is still so ~basic~. most query constructs that could be run against the history db should be exposed through the UI.
I also think it would be great if I could see the path I took to a url history(e.g. linked browsing)

- sync isn't done. I feel sync should also sync settings* from about:config & extension settings. I also would like to see the upper limit massively bumped up from the Mozilla sync service.

These may seem like big asks but Mozilla is taking in 1/2 billion a year [1]

* for those settings where it makes sense to sync.

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3240008/web-browsers/m...
Just to be clear, I didn't downvote neither this nor the post I replied to.
Yeah, I use it in queries as well. Good point!
Mind you, this book is 10+ years old but that's not exactly the impression I got from it. That is, the brain __is plastic__ and __does__ have a high capacity for "re-configuring" itself. The story of the woman who was born with only one hemisphere of here brain comes to mind. There are other examples as well in the book.

"The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science"

https://www.amazon.com/Brain-That-Changes-Itself-Frontiers/d...
Among other things they get access to "age range, gender, language", which in combination can often already be a good starting point. They also get access to the email address which can be used to pull more info via other APIs, if you have used that email much in the past. They also get access to "other public info", which I'm not 100% sure about, but I think that should be equivalent to what you see when you go on someones public profile page, and includes Page likes for a lot of people.
It wouldn't make much sense for the news to report on things which were not newsworthy. That people die from very typical things people always die from just isn't news.
To paraphrase Steve Jobs, "real artists ship"
I often wonder if (many) american's hatred of taxes stems from having them shoved in their face.

In the UK you don't have to file a tax return unless you have unusual finances (e.g. are self employed), and sales tax is includes in the advertised sale price of items.

We still have to oay taxes of course, but they are much less annoying!
From the post....

My dad retired from a manufacturing job at 55 because it was putting too much of a strain on his body

My mom retired because she could and they wanted to enjoy their life together while they were still relatively young.
The only issue for me regarding Firefox is when I'm on a Mac laptop not connected to power. It is still eating far too much battery compared to Chrome – Safari is no contest. This may be related to the unhealthy number of tabs I keep open.

Other then that, it feels great and is improving.
> This type of patch is surely worth money in order to accept.

Not necessarily. If accepting this proposal means that the community loses confidence in the platform, then there could be way more money to lose than just what is locked up in that dead contract. Does it seem likely they won't take that into consideration?
Noob question here... why is stroke order important? Surely if the final result is the same, why should the order in which the strokes were formed matter?
Nss-tls, a system-wide DNS-over-HTTPS resolver for Linux distros with glibc
What you just described applies to almost every consideration that Congress makes. In most cases they know nothing about what they discuss. But in fact, nowadays they really don't discuss much - they just take prepared bills from lobby groups and ram them through using the power of majority.

At least since Obama took office, and the GOP side openly declared that their primary goal was to make Obama a one term president, there has been comparatively little actual work going on in the legislative branch. (That's not to say that both sides are not in bed with corporations, however.)
thanks for the details.

4-5 seconds sort of makes sense, depending on hardware. 3 minutes made no sense.
Anything by Conspiracy or Mercury. For smaller stuff, Fulcrum seems to manage to pack a lot of content into a 4k.
A look back at some of Nintendo’s strangest hardware and accessories
Yet another dangerous cannabis dealer apprehended. 8.5 years in the slammer well deserved. Wales LE is truly doing God's work.
Ask HN: Do we need fully decentralized systems?
Proponents of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum argue that we need to have fully decentralized systems. While these systems are operational and decentralized, they have an abysmally low performance. At the moment Bitcoin can only process 3 transactions per second, and Ethereum can only handle 15 transactions per second globally for all applications.

At the same time, we already have less decentralized systems like Ripple (for payments) and NEO (for decentralized applications and smart contracts). The performance of these protocols is orders of magnitude higher than the performance of fully decentralized systems. For example, NEO at its current state can process around 10,000 transactions per second.

It is hard to speculate if Ethereum and similar systems will ever outperform other blockchains, but it can be reasonable to assume that fully decentralized systems will always have lower performance since they need to provide stronger guarantees. In this case, if less decentralized systems will have higher performance, are there any practical reasons to strive for full decentralization?
In the firmware I mentioned on an 8 bit system using a 16 bit indx increases the resulting code by 2-3X.

A lot of times the code size doesn't matter. In my case it's important. Consider a lowly printf statement in my firmware.

It takes about 120 bytes of code. A trivial amount! Lets see how much that costs us.

Marginal cost of flash is about $1.00/64k. So 120b/64k X $1 = $0.001875 per unit.

We ship 100,000 units per year.

So that printf costs $187 per year.
By the time of the WWII it was just as bad; pretty much all of strategic supplies, explosives, fuel, etc. were coming from USA and UK.

USSR supplied most of the manpower, but without the American military-industrial complex, Germans would have rolled all the way to the Pacific with no problem.
I teared down (re)viewing 97 demos not long ago. So nice, smooth, tiny .. doing things I could barely do without doing acrobatics (live colorimetry reconf, threaded ui from scratch, mediafs) all on old hardware.
I would say that the research is often driven by the market-worthiness of any solutions that might result from the research.

Prevention, as you mention, is a market.

Repair, is also a market.

Of course there are other factors.
When the Macintosh was introduced in 1984, files had a data fork and a resource fork[1]. The data fork was normal file data. The resource fork was an map of (OSType, int16) -> data, where OSType[2] was a four-character resource type identifier such as 'MENU' to specify a menu, 'PICT' for picture, etc.

Sort of like MIME types, which were standardized a decade later[3].

Resources were limited to, I think, 4MB. 4MB was 32x the RAM capacity, and 10x the [floppy] disk capacity, of the original Macintosh.

One of the OSTypes was 'FONT'. Font data was simply a resource stuck in some file — the system file, or, as a kind of pre-web “web font”, an application.

When we added support for CJK fonts, around 1990, we had to also add OS/file system support for resource sizes > 4MB. (I think the limit was increased to 16MB.)

Resources were a clever invention that facilitated the development of GUI-heavy apps on what by today's standards are ridiculously resource-constrained computers. (The Apple Watch series 3 has more than 60,000 times the RAM of that first Macintosh — although only a third the screen resolution. :-)

Resources also enabled a limited kind of “view source”, that helped a generation of programmers learn their way around Mac application structure. You couldn't view the actual code source, but you could browse the GUI resources of any application you could get your hands on. (This is similar to do the modern web, where the use of webpack, Babel, uglification, and the use of compile-to-js languages, means the actual source code to a complex web site is not accessible, but the assets are.)

As MacOS 10.0, which built on the Unix- (Mach-)based NextOS, resources (multiple data within a file; one OS file per UI file) were replaced by Bundles[4] (many OS files — in a directory — per UI “file”). Bundles are a much better solution for a world with a heterogeneity of operating systems (macOS, Windows, Linux and other Un*xen), where files and tools need to port between multiple file systems. Although bundles come with their own portability problems[5].

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSType

[3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2045

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundle_(macOS)

[5] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/drive/25XGSFt...
BoA still claims I'm using an "unsupported browser" when I use Firefox.

Very annoying, because AFAICT everything works perfectly.
IEFBR14
There are hundreds of strains of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus bacteria, that are used to make "sour milk" (or yogurt). I don't really care who invented what and when, I just enjoy the great variety of natural products, and I really hate the surrogates produced by the big brands like Danone and Nestle. At the end of the day, it is a matter of taste, but as a Bulgarian I prefer natural Bulgarian "кисело мялко" that could be found only in selected shops or in small villages around the country, because it is more sour, naturally thick, with >5% natural fat. There are similar products all over the Balkans and also in Iran, but they have different taste and texture, I guess depending on the different strains used for the fermentation and many other factors. I've traveled to more than 50 countries on 4 continents in the last 30 years, and I could say one thing - just don't consume the "branded" surrogates, that pretend to be "something", if you haven't tasted the real thing :-) I guess the same is true for every food - just last week I've purchased like 5 different brands of Dijon mustard in Dubai...OMG, none of them was even remotely close to what a Dijon mustard is...
"We enhanced a fingerprint that was barely legible. He dun it!"

I honestly wonder if they are using some ML-style hallucination algo. Because most non-technical folk don't understand that the details are missing, and any attempt to fill them in usually requires a great deal of liberty.

Anyways, they probably used the weak evidence to get the warrant for the raid. And then he confessed and there was all the evidence in his home. It's common as rain, use faulty evidence in order to secure confessions or actual court-admissable evidence. Egh.
When reading, we consume whole words at a time, even in syllabic / phonetic alphabet languages.

English is a poor comparison, because it - having consumed vocabulary from many other latin alphabet languages and preserved their spelling, among other historical accidents - does not have a consistent pronunciation rule: you have to know the word to know the pronunciation or otherwise only guess at it, which is similar performance of an ideographic language with pronunciation hints like Chinese.

Latin languages with consistent pronunciation are better examples.

Hangul though, is a superb example: truly designed system, syllabic and compositional. (other readers: look it up, it's really cool how it works).

It's unfortunate you were downvoted over the details here. The big picture - many languages have a large process of rote memorization as a barrier to literacy and such a process is entirely optional - is a great observation.
I use FF on Android just because I can block ads with extensions since the ad-laden experience is so unbearable on mobile, even though overall Chrome seems a better browser. So I'm puzzled that its market share on that platform is so low (0.6% according to the article), given you cannot use blockers like UBlock Origin with mobile Chrome.

Since ad blockers on desktop have a pretty high penetration, what is going on on mobile? Does everyone really just browse on Android without blocking ads?
Another interesting book about meditation is The Mind Illuminated:

http://themindilluminated.com/

by Culadasa (John Yates):

http://culadasa.com/about/

He has both a scientific and a meditator background. Not checked the book out in depth yet, but going to.
They use media coverage and conflate it with "general public sentiment" and how "people think we die". While the wording seems to be carefully crafted that it avoids stating something outright wrong, it does suggest that they are the same.

Are there studies that compare media coverage with surveys on how people think we die?
So...you can have a program that runs on an extremely slow computer and costs a ton of electricity to execute?
But people have always died from violence. It's hardly news.
DNP is a nasty cutting drug I wouldn't recommend anyone take. In bodybuilding the use of DNP is typically done in the amateur level because people at that point are less discapilined at dieting and contest prep. DNP is used as a way to cut corners to drop fat instead of dieting or the use of less harsh drugs. There's a lot of great info on reddit about the 'safe' use of DNP https://www.reddit.com/r/steroids/wiki/dnp but unlike every other steroid or ancillary that is used in bodybuilding, DNP is the only one that wasn't every intended to actually be consumed by a living creature. It's a straight up poison.
Maybe people are not using browsers on mobile but apps?
Question: Are there any other cells in the body that are not, over time, replaced?

Might it be possible that some brains have the ability to generate new neurons, while others do not? Couldn't it be possible that evolution created such situations?
Have any downvoters actually even read Ayn Rand, or is it the usual people who don't even have to, because they know all they need to about her?

This segment, with it's hyperbole, ridiculous black and white simplification of complex matters, and tone of (over)confidence is unmistakably typical of her writing style:

"Jupyter rewards transparency; Mathematica rationalizes secrecy. Jupyter encourages individual integrity; Mathematica lets individuals hide behind corporate evasion. Jupyter exemplifies the social systems that emerged from the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, systems that make it possible for people to cooperate by committing to objective truth; Mathematica exemplifies the horde of new Vandals whose pursuit of private gain threatens a far greater pubic loss–the collapse of social systems that took centuries to build.

Membership in an open source community is like membership in the community of science. There is a straightforward process for finding a true answer to any question. People disagree in public conversations. They must explain clearly and listen to those who response with equal clarity. Members of the community pay more attention to those who have been right in the past, and to those who enhance their reputation for integrity by admitting in public when they are wrong. They shun those who mislead. There is no court of final appeal. The only recourse is to the facts.

It’s a messy process but it works, the only one in all of human history that ever has. No other has ever achieved consensus at scale without recourse to coercion."
Not at all.

Taxes aren’t a negotiation... 90% of taxes are known because IRS has all of the data already.

The strategic goal of any tax organization is to maximize voluntary compliance and invest enforcement for maximum return. Pre-prepared returns would eliminate most of the fraud committed by normal people.
There is an awesome Adam ruins everything episode on Tax returns. It seems that rent seeking is pretty much the only thing keeping the current system in place.
Basically, yes. This area is called Question Answering (QA). One of the popular datasets is SQuAD https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/
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Maybe my needs are much more modest than that of the average user, but, as a matter of fact, I do get by without using extensions from the Google Chrome store which are not open source. I do install open source ones from there, but I'm ready to download from source and avoid the store, which I do indeed do in some cases.

Even if Chromium's source is developed by Google employees, it being open source at least allows it to undergo scrutiny with respect to end-user-unfriendly behaviour.
> but it is much more decentralized than other systems

By which measure? There are more than six thousand banks[1] in US, all of which are perfectly capable to create significant amounts of USD currency. My understanding is that even if the number of Bitcoin miners may be higher, it is still much more concentrated to a hand of a few pools.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_the_United_States#A...
Tesla and Beyond: Hidden Problems of Silicon Valley
Sam Altman's decision-making framework visualized
Soviet Moon program ended in a big nothing because by the time it was started all the German designers (who made all those great engines) had went home, and without them USSR never managed to catch up to anything like F-1. Native designs tended to blow up.
FWIW, I used MathCAD extensively around that period while in grad school (I taught physics lab courses that were 100% structured around MathCAD workflows).
I hated it, and Jupyter is explicitly informed by that experience. So it's not like MathCAD very much by design, not by lack of knowledge.

We acknowledge there's a lot to improve in Jupyter, and some discussions in this post make excellent points (many of which we'd like to make progress on in the future). But the Jupyter team did probably use most/all of the modern scientific computing platforms, MathCAD included (and Maple, Mathematica, IDL, Matlab, Gnuplot, ...) at some point in our careers. We typically make our choices with reasonably good knowledge of the landscape.

We make mistakes, or our tradeoffs may be different than the optimal ones for your use case. But lack of knowledge of these tools is rarely the reason :)
I was on the beta when I wrote that comment - tried the nightly and though better is still a jank fest. It's the reverse of the desktop where Chrome has gone awful and FF is nice. The biggest thing is the scrolling behaviour on FF which is truly horrendous. Is this just me? There's also a click-lag. I'm not rooted, have minimal apps, etc.
Of course it won't solve all bugs, but it's easier to specify a series of conditions as a functional description rather than writing a stack vm program.
> how many sites are "only working in Chrome" these days

Which sites? I've never encountered one that worked only in Chrome.
It's odd that the pills are branded with "IKEA" and "Skype". I wonder why that is desirable by the consumers and producers?
Switched to waterfox, and never looked back. Most of us won't go Chrome, because we'll still have a secure gecko-based browser that won't violate our privacy.

When Servo matures into something useable daily (it's almost there) we'll abandon firefox/gecko entirely.
Only seems like you’re the one pouring on outrage here to me. You were one of the first to make a comment even.
> * for those settings where it makes sense to sync.

What makes sense for one person may not make sense for the next. That's why it's configurable: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Mozilla/Fir...
Sampling is studied as a way to save time without running a census for every experiment. Many universities use this technique. An intro to stats course could probably be found on Coursera that will go into this.
Write your own transformation! Simple Computer Algebra System made in Java
You may uncover so much mud that you stumble and fall but if you're so inclined you just need to remember to get up and keep going every time.
I think the fears of terrorism is less about how many people it kills, as how unsafe it makes people feel.