skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the context of a small town, you don't craft airtight zoning regulations because if Harold is being a bad neighbor, you go work it out with Harold. If he's still being a jerk, you ask his friends to help you talk to him.

I don't think it's fair to blame the town for expecting people to be considerate and decent. Blaming them is like blaming consumers for not reading a EULA.
The hydrogen infrastructure requires to be built from scratch. New fuel stations (of course they can reuse existing locations), the technology for fueling hydrogen is way more complex and very different to gasonly. New trucks. This is transporting very voilatile gas at about 1000 bar pressure. And it requires the trucks driving around, which was the main thing I was speaking about, while the elecricity flows over the existing networks. It also requires more truck loads of hydrogen than gasoline to supply the same amount of car mileage.
because the article spends the first half taking a cynical stance of "but can we reeealy believe what people say about their experiences" and spends the latter half first talking about the authors experiences and then more or less stating that those experiences were wrong, or at least not the original intent of the indigenous culture.

part of the PR problem with psychedelics is its easy status for cynical evaluation: "everything we hear is anecodotal, and furthermore the subject of discussion was tripping anyway, how can it be believable." it is probably hoped by those sharing experiences to provide reasonable sounding arguments to break through the cynicism.
Yup. You don't create your own views, you get a generic query engine and generic indices instead. On top of all the other benefits, like cheap as-of time travel.
It literally starts with a summary:

> This is an extremely long, in-depth blog series, so I'll start by giving you a summary.
most of these criticisms I agree with but I don't blame scala as a language for it. I write, and encourage my colleagues to write, code that is very easy to follow and reckon about. Few obscure operators, almost zero implicits....
What about:

https://github.com/mozilla/mentat
https://github.com/tonsky/datascript
which is why I'd be against adding them in Java and favor keeping the power in scala.
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For anybody interested in experimenting I recommend reading about LSD microdosing as an alternative to high doses that make you trip. Look for James Fadiman's research.
> When compared to the enormous inefficiency of the global banking system, the energy consumed per transaction for crypto comes out far, far ahead

Visa: 3.1 billion cards; $8.9 trillion in transactions in 2016; 65,000 transactions per second capacity.

Bitcoin is a very sad joke compared to just Visa. The global banking system is a marvel of efficiency by comparison.

Bitcoin is consuming as much electricity as the Czech Republic or Switzerland and half as much as the Netherlands.

Dollar for dollar, the global banking system is using less than 1% of the electricity that Bitcoin is.
So cool!!! What a slayer
Does anyone have a non-paywall but legitimate link to the story?
I was impressed enough with their CES demo to buy some stock. Isn’t the Volta at 15E9 transistors? It’s at the point only the big boys can play in that field due to fab costs, unless it’s disrupted due to some totally new architecture.

First time on HN I can read a paywalled article, as I have a Barron’s print subscription.
use the web button at the top - worked for me
I hope that they might consider incorporating some of what made PhotoSIG so enjoyable. One thing in particular was the ability to search for community photos by lens type, camera type, film type, location, etc. I know you can do this with search engines and to some extent in flicker, but I like the way it was implemented there.
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I don’t think watching YouTube videos qualifify as gathering information, even if it fits within the definition of the word research.

Feel free to do it though, and I take no offense if you disagree with me, but I’d be careful trusting strangers on the internet, especially if you’re considering going to South America to do drugs.
Not having read the white paper, it appears the defining difference here is data versioning.
I agree you should not be able to change a software license but if Facebook had an icon for each thing they did like: [share with 3rd party] [sell your info] ...
Like the article (presentation) said it's not the best idea to do this with hundreds of components (I think he mentions latency) - in fact you "somehow" have to (should?) bundle things together and then you are back to square one or at least have to hink about pluggability/configuration again.
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Honest question, not meant to be rude, but what value do you get from having created 20k bookmarks?
You need to check your facts.
There's an essay in the book The Best Software Writing I (edited by Joel Spolsky) that talks about how social networking represents an inherently poor model of real human social networks. Here's an online link: http://www.danah.org/papers/Supernova2004.html

It's from 2004, so it lacks the perspective of having seen how virtually all of the history of social networking unfolded. And it flogs on negative stereotypes around both programmers and people with autism in a way that really grates. So I can't recommend the essay generally. But it does have some interesting observations.

One is the jarring crudeness of simplifying the infinitely complex and nuanced texture of real webs of social connections down to a simple 1-bit flag: "Are you my friend? Yes or no." Facebook has subsequently made the graph bitartite, so now you can "friend" people and "follow" companies, but that's barely an improvement.

I'm no longer a Facebook user, but their recent "X is not your friends" ad campaign got me thinking about that fact again. The campaign seems to be trying to imply that they really do understand my social life, and they are going to get in line with it. But the jarring simplicity of the message just reminded me how much they don't. My social network is not just a list of people I happen to associate with. It's the guy I talk philosophy with, it's the people I went to college with, with whom I still get together to catch up while our kids (all about the same age) run feral in the backyard. It's grad school classmates with whom I can share the gory details of my successes, failures and frustrations with data engineering and fitting machine learning models, and whom I can call on for help when I'm having trouble, and who call on me for help for the same. And it's people who really don't want me to ever mention words like "conjugate transpose" in their presence, but do want to hear about the everyday joys and challenges of simultaneously going to graduate school and raising their grandchildren.

Facebook doesn't - can't - understand any of that subtlety. Consequently, it doesn't - can't - provide a satisfying experience for facilitating my real social life.

As a medium for creating and then feeding a minor addiction to clicks of the "like" button in response to photos of my kids, in exchange for "a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use" them, on the other hand, it seems to be amazingly well-optimized.
In this case we are not talking about paper or film, but old analog video and audio tape. This is reel-to-reel audio and quad or u-matic analog video tape. It suffers from even more degradation issues than digital files as you need to maintain the original medium, have no error correction layers, and are faced with an increasing rarity of the specialized equipment needed to read the data. There is also no additional data that advanced techniques will be able to pull from the original low-fidelity source.
I suspect that using your own domain for large volumes of photos still adds significant indirect time and energy cost of fiddling around with separate front end and mass storage backend. A bunch of time spent tweaking to keep full images and smaller versions organized and quick while not paying a premium for storage is a cost, and those hours have value.
How would this work? What does it mean to be "made of" a black hole
Your comment doesn't address what he wrote. The answer to anything as far as the modern consumer is concerned seems to always be "Buy more stuff!" In this case, what's being pedaled is the cure to consumerism. And the irony that the proposed solution is to buy yet another product seems lost on most people here.

Enough is enough. I agree with the original poster. Our solutions to every problem shouldn't be to buy yet another thing.
Non paywall link: https://outline.com/FucjTm
Looks cool, and I guess I'm old and illogical - but I miss the 'old days' when you could just buy things without teasers, pre-announcements, order windows, etc.

I doesn't build excitement in my case, more that I forget about it and move on.
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A larger percentage of people who pay taxes use roads than the percentage that pay for trains and don't use them.

Only place trains win are very specific regions and for cargo
Psychedelic chemicals don't speak narrative; the answer is far more boring of a story than "ego-busting". In my non-expert opinion, it's something roughly like this:

People have a surprising amount of path-dependence to their personality and behavior. That's like, the entire point of childhood - to figure out what kind of person you are, what kind of society you're in, and how to live up to expectation. These experiences will crystallize people's patterns of thought.

How psychedelics broadly work is they shake up people's typical thought patterns and make them experience new ones. Not better ones, not necessarily "ego-busting", just new. This lets people shake things up and clear out some over-adaptation. As a bonus model prediction: since the average thought pattern is adaptive, "too much" is bad for people as it makes them under-adapted for the world they inhabit.
Unfortunately I discovered this isn't the case. I contacted SmugMug support and they've already decided all Flickr users will be subject to SmugMug's policies as of May 25th. Existing Flickr content that satisfied Flickr's policies can be removed for SmugMug policy violations.

This is destructive and makes me sad for Flickr's future.

I just hope they don't decide to mass delete everything with a content filter applied, since in theory all that content violates their new policy.
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In that scenario dark matter is just those separate mini black holes.
Or because JS is my primary language. I was actually already planning to port it to Go as an exercise. You're welcome to beat me to it.
> How much revenue your code is earning says nothing about the quality of the code.

It says everything it needs to say. Revenue pays developer salaries.
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I also think the content has become haphazard and mostly uninteresting. Is it because tech culture is stabilizing around a new normal? Smart phones are stabilized. Several next big things are growing slower than we hoped. Even JS frameworks are less dynamic than before.

Or is it all just as dynamic and we just became more jaded?
I wonder if there's a word for this; where people learn that one bit of common knowledge is a fallacy and then "overcorrect" by assuming related things are also wrong. Perhaps "meta fallacy?"
> It's interesting how in 2018 web development === react. React this, react that.

Its quite popular for sure, but after just doing a job search for about 6 months, I came across a surprising number of firms using ng, ember, and even vue in a couple places.

modern ruby on rails with ujs is still hugely popular
"It's great that you can dial in whichever level of CC licensing you want and then grab some photos for marketing or wireframing."

A friend used a site that had those sorts of free use licenses, and then got hit by the Getty lawyers: It turned out that someone was just taking stock images and posting them on their own account with a gratis license, which of course does nothing to excuse the people trusting it in faith.

Not sure how to solve that problem.
> Markdeep is a technology for writing plain text documents that will look good in any web browser

I couldn't read their website on my mobile...
chromium and firefox stable and nightly
Please do this! :)
This way of thinking was my main motivation behind Grip [0]. Use Readme-driven development and "play" with the API--whether it's in the form of a CLI, a library, or web API-- through usage examples.

I've found this to be a wonderful way to get into the heads of dev users before you approach them directly.

[0]: https://github.com/joeyespo/grip
I can see it charging sufficiently over lunch if you use a supercharger. And that will be great if you've got superchargers installed in the parking lot at the place you stop for lunch. But I wouldn't fault anyone for feeling like that's a pretty big "if". Especially if truck stop food isn't your bag of peas.
I though many of the options in duktape could be turned off to reduce the memory footprint.
The mistake would be that this is what provides the lift force, as stated in the quote.

If this was so, birds wouldn't need to flap, which is the actual lift generator (pushing air down).
Pretty soft article. General purpose processors no longer have the performance or energy efficiency that’s possible at scale. Further, if you have a choice to control your own destiny, why wouldn’t you choose to?
6000 words and no technical arguments of why hydrogen is viable or not.
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I do not know if there is a name for it, but it comes from not fully understanding why the original fallacy is fallacious.
Cargo cult fallacy?
At first glance it looked like the motion control was gamified with a driving game. Part of me wishes that was the case, the other part of is horrified of the thought of carpenters messing around with cloud enabled gameboys on their tools.
You can now get unlimited data for 80€ in Germany (Telekom Magenta Mobil XL) which is still expensive. If you can live with 1 MBit/s you can use O2 Free for about 20€.
Hey, remember when Hacker News was awash with crypto experts telling you to avoid Telegram and it's unproven hand-rolled crypto?

What a difference a year or two makes.
I think it's still a dynamic and interesting field, and there are still good tech articles on HN's front page every day. I firmly believe that we are still in the wild-west of programming as a profession, and anyone who says they know what the next twenty years will look like is delusional.

The problem here is simply dilution. Every niche social site that grows large will eventually face the Eternal September, when the userbase grows too large for moderation, and the content drifts dramatically. At that point you simply have to move on and find somewhere that still has a focus on the topic you originally were looking for.
The pressure difference pushes air down. It does provide the lift force.

Birds flap to create thrust, not lift. Surely you’ve seen birds flying without flapping?
I just hope you realize in part your comment is being
down-voted to hell not because of your opinion, but due to a lack of critical thinking and good faith arguments.

Consider even your first sentence “If you need drugs to become more open minded and empathetic...”, is a misstatement of the subject.

The only question asked by the article and any commenter from what I can see is can you become a better person?

I don’t know your religious leanings, but just probability tells us that they likely disagree with your premise that having a good “upbringing” is all it takes to become a person with no room for improvement. Likely your belief system encourages a lifetime of effort to improve these qualities.

The question here is not about needing drugs. The point is most people would be interested in bettering themselves if possible. For thousands of years humans have pondered ways to do so, and they will naturally continue to consider possibilities to do so within a sea of possibilities. This article simply continues that tradition.
There is no impartiality or diversity of different economics taught currently. The only economics taught in most universities is complete reference to capitalism. I say this having a degree in economics and forgoing acceptance into a PhD program due to the current bias
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I think all the “paying the users“ schemes are bullshit. I’ve heard these ideas for a decade or more, and can’t think of a successful implementation.

I don’t want to get paid breadcrumbs for my time or attention.
I currently pay for Dropbox solely to store RAW files.

If you're under 1TB (on a personal/professional account), you might also test whether Onedrive would work for you - particularly if you're on Windows 10 where Files On-demand is now integrated into the OS.

If nothing else, the bulk storage cost of Onedrive is somewhere around half the cost of Dropbox.
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> Psychedelics allow people to more easily shift their perspective

This is a fairly accurate summary, from my personal experience.

Psychedelics help to partially peel back the immense layers of mental models and perspectives that we slowly build up over the many years of our life. These layers are usually fairly inscrutable -- most people don't think about them much. As the mental model of one's self is perhaps the most deeply rooted of them all, this process is how "ego death" occurs.

It is possible to gain some insight into our deeply rooted mental structures through years of careful self-observation and/or meditation, but psychedelics are an incredibly powerful tool for getting a different view of your own mind in single day (integrating the experience takes much longer).

I should say, though, due to the sheer power and novelty of the experience, it can feel as if the most simple thought is deeply profund -- so this is something one has to watch out for, if they care about genuine insight.

Warning: Psychedelics should be used with great caution -- they are not toys, and can cause significant harm if used improperly or under the wrong conditions.
"Dark matter" is just a word for the missing mass we can detect gravitationally, but can't otherwise detect. We know there's something out there from it's effects on other normal matter. But it doesn't seem to have any other effect apart from gravitation.

What the authors are suggesting is that this "dark matter" effect is actually the result of many small black holes orbiting galaxies. That they aren't exotic particles, just something we already know about in an unexpected place.
Why would they have the ability to decrypt everyone's messages? Shouldn't the design decision be not to know the keys at all? I wonder if WhatsApp knows our messages too.
> I don't really make mistakes that often

If you're not making regular mistakes, I suggest you seek more challenging work.
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I don't see why we can't do both. I would like to see some attempts to help people find a good path forward, and some attempts to just be generous and kind hearted.

I met a man recently who told me he was once within a day of being homeless. His last day in housing, having not paid his mortgage in months due to a serious back injury, he ran into someone who knew him who offered to not only get his mortgage caught up, but keep paying it while he recuperated until he was able to return to work.

One of the big differences between The Haves and The Have Nots is The Haves frequently had access to resources even when something had gone terribly wrong in their lives. The Have Nots either never had access to such resources or the resources ran out before their level of need was met.

That man was able to rebuild his life. How many homeless people could rebuild their lives if someone was willing to gift them many months of rent? Most people on the street will simply never see that level of generosity. And then we blame them for failing, not recognizing that others are doing better not due to personal virtues per se, but simply good fortune or kindness done to them.
That's great news! Thanks for the reply.
thank you for the excellent explanation!
I logged in to post my ode to the San Francisco<->Chicago California Zephyr... but looks like it's already pretty well-covered.

It's really incredibly beautiful and great for thinking. SF<->Seattle on the Coast Starlight is also wonderful, those two routes are absolute gems.

Worth doing them now if you're at all interested; they might well not operate in a few years. Amtrak USA Rail Pass is also an exceptionally good value if you're looking to see a lot of the USA in a short period of time —

https://www.amtrak.com/take-the-trains-across-america-with-u...
I am a huge Tesla fan (and Elon fan). I own stock (shortly after IPO). I have a model 3 reservation. I have been singing their praises for a long time. Elon is an incredible visionary and probably an incredible engineer. This is a great combination for making the impossible possible.

And I totally agree with this article. If not a new CEO, Tesla needs a good COO. They need excellent, consistent execution, not novel, groundbreaking execution. They have 100's of thousands of reservations for the 3 (and I don't know how many powerwall and solar roof reservations). If they can just execute on this, the world is theirs. But if they continue to have delays and major, public mistakes like the model 3 ramp, my stock purchase may have been a poor choice.
Read about the details. Wow, having a bug like this being discussed so broadly shines a bad light on Google IMHO. Its appears like targeted news against Microsoft. It's not mich newsworthy defense in depth issue. If an adversary can modify the registry, they can do a lot more harm.
Anyone who lives near mountains long enough understands cabin fever. Is it any wonder the humans that live in the Himalayas experience cabin fever to a greater extent?

Stoicism, or Buddhism, in my view, is simply the most efficient ideology for surviving in dangerous environments.
Brilliant idea, outsource to the human the low-precision positioning task and get rid of the workpiece fixtures for massive price reduction.

Now someone needs to build the equivalent for 3-5 axis, maybe with a free movable support arm since it might be too heavy to hold just with hands.
Nah, it's not like there aren't a million towns out there with adequate regulations they could have just copied. Or they could have made that "contact Harold if he's being an jerk" have legal teeth: community review boards and the like. Or zoning, like most towns have.

You don't need perfectly airtight zoning regulations if draft them right: just ask SF residents where the rights of existing residents are almost too strong.

This is a southern town so I strongly suspect the anti-regulation rhetoric won out and now they paid the price.
Which of the many obstacles to trying them are stopping you? What would it take to overcome them?
How important is automatically getting grafana dashboards though? Let me say its pretty awesome for beginners and maybe someone unfamiliar with grafana dashboards and I am a huge fan of this functionality. But I'm not convinced it should be the feature that differentiates between the two solutions.
Yes, it‘s my use case. Some services only cater to Nikon and Canon as the two dominant players and their RAW format.
Go to the grocery store beforehand — they don't mind you bringing food onboard.