skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, for small stories, addressing others, especially.

But most of us prefer to subscribe to large-scale myths or ideologies offerring hope, salvation, redemption, etc. That is the backbone of every major world religion, and most political ideology. It's certainly what the economic orthodoxies mantra of perpetual growth pretends.

Sad songs say so much, but Pop is overwhelmingly Happy.

Story arcs tend far more to Comic than Tragic. "Hollywood ending" is a trope for reasons.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hollywood-ending

And in politics, realism is the kiss of death. Carter's "Malaise" speech:

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=32596

We remember (or have been indoctrinated with) Churchill's "we shall fight them on the beaches", but not the full paragraph, and far bleaker thoughts, which follow it:

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/apr/20/greatspe...
Ask HN: What is a good project form for better accountability?
I am launching an hardware startup. Hardware is hard, because launching experiments require a long preparation time.

For now, me and my co-founder are building our product, but I am quite dissatisfied about our advancement. I have the general feeling that he is taking too much ressources for doing his part of the job.

Our only management tool is Trello. It is quite limited, and it does not make us especially accountable for our work. I was thinking about introducing project form, in which we would write the total amount of time and materials budget to achieve a project.

Do you have any idea example of such project form?
Theming custom block types in Drupal 8
The IQ trap: how the study of genetics could transform education
To be honest most of that is in the intermediate. The full covers basic AC circuits and minimal BJT amplifier structure and that's about it.
> The US looks "speckled" because there is a lot of empty space, which does not have to be connected. So the others that are all-red have it actually worse. Asia has a lot more people too, so yes, that leads to higher density - but that's hardly an advantage to have to deal with over a billion people instead of a few hundred millions.

There is plenty of research around public transit indicating the opposite: higher density increases transit viability, because public transit requires high demand per kilometer in order to be financially viable. For example, to quote this [1] highly cited paper:

"There are well documented empirical thresholds of density below which transit is unpractical for users and financially unsustainable for operators."

Or even just the opening line of the introduction:

"The counterpoint to the correlation between low-density sprawl and automobile dependence is that between high density and more transit use."

Connecting through "nothingness" is not an advantage: it costs actual money to build transit even through "nothingness" — labor and materials are not free, and even what you term "nothingness" is typically owned by someone and land rights still need to be acquired — and no one wants to go there. It would be cheaper to build transit between Popular Point A and Popular Point B if the vast "nothingness" between them was removed altogether — aka, high density.

> They still are just as distributed

You're taking the "sparse population distribution" argument pretty far out of context. The point is that they're sparse, not the total landmass size.

> I find the effort in many comments to point out how the US is "special" and "different" from all the rest of the world very weird. I would not find it as weird if it looked like a detached analysis, but it seems to be mostly emotional. Why? So strange. What's the big deal, what do you lose, if you come to the conclusion that it's of course true that all problems are local and none are completely the same, the variability and the base problems are not actually different? What's the big deal? Isn't it enough to look for "exceptionalism" in the achievements and possibilities, why does it have to also be true for such mundane stuff at any cost (e.g. suffering quality of arguments)?

Thanks, but I think my posts in here have been pretty data-focused and detached.

1: http://courses.washington.edu/gmforum/Readings/Bertaud_Trans...
Doctors have reversed an inherited disorder in utero using a biotech drug
Well it limits supply, because it makes it less attractive to create more buildings, so the prices go up, if demand is increasing.
CCD Algorithm for Solving Inverse Kinematics Problem
Highly recommend A. Roger Ekrich’s At Day’s Close: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/At-Days-Close/

Not only is it a great book on the subject, but the writing is exquisite.
Disclaimer: I'm involved with the Flathub project (I've developed the new website)

I use Spotify and some other programs from Flathub and they work great on Debian stable. It's a great way to have updated software on non-rolling distros.

Setting up instructions for many distros can be found here https://flatpak.org/setup/

Thanks for sharing!
The Beanie Babies in McDonald's Happy Meals did too - regulating these away from kids is a good idea, but for adults, I don't see how the digital equivalent of collecting (and maybe selling) random stuffed toys is gambling.
> When you're learning English, for example, you mix up and write capital İ instead of I

That's part of the aforementioned fun.

Another part is bugs like this:

https://bugs.debian.org/579324
I doubt we could benefit much from that. That approach would significantly increase latency because of PCI overhead. As mentioned in the OP, most crypto operations are small chunks of data.
On which numbers is your 100x estimation based? Or is it just some number you made up.
I run a 2015 MBP at work, and I have a 2012 personal MBP which I don't use much nowadays. When it eventually dies, or I leave this job and have to hand the work one back, I'll be buying one of the best 13" MBPs you can buy at the moment: a second hand 2015 model.

If I feel like paying double for less ports, the same specs and an emoji bar, I'll probably buy new, but as long as my head is screwed on correctly, I'll be scouring eBay, which is a massive shame. Some people in the office have a new MBP, but the amount they cost nowadays (thanks emoji bar!) is astronomical, the keyboard is horrendous compared to the old ones and one colleague already had issues with screen defects and a broken keyboard key.

It's so annoying as MBPs just got better and better until the last couple of years then they just nosedived in to a novelty.
No electronic devices after 10.
> For online news: I pay and from a newspaper that gets more than 50% of its revenue from subscriptions. It also has a finance bent, and is non-US based, which seems to steer me clear of much of the political echo chamber. Therefore the op-eds are often on topics that don’t directly impact me and I find it easier to assess the expressed opinion without emotional investment (e.g. from today: “Customs Union: The battleground set to decide the fate of Brexit”).

It's funny you mention the FT. It might be outside your echo chamber but it probably is the loudest voice in mine. Pro-EU, broadly free trade and broadly in favour of the welfare state. I work in the City and I can at any time see a number of people reading it on their screens, there are paper copies piled up in in-trays and the views expressed in those op-ed have a commensurately large correlation with what I (over)hear while queuing to buy a sandwich at lunchtime.
The Mazda 6 and Ford Fusion shared the Mazda G platform

The Mazda 6 platform of the early-mid 1990s was shared with the Ford Probe; the MX6-LS was the same as the Probe GT underneath. (Ford didn't even have a 24V V-6 of its own at the time.)
We don't know historical global temperatures well enough to say if anthropogenic warming is particularly fast.

For example the Younger Dryas¹, about 15ky ago. The best estimate is global temp dropped 2-6° over 50 years and 1000 years later, did the opposite. Before that our data is so poor it's hard to distinguish between 1000 years and 1 year.

[1] https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/abrupt-climate-change/The%20Younge...
I had made a job board for machine learning as well. https://mljobslist.com/

Posting a job is free also, unless you want it featured.

I'm glad to see more competition.
This implies that which positions respected publications run reasoned, convincing arguments for affects what people believe. That for all their complaints about Facebook mind control, they're just as much in the business of controlling people's minds if not more so.
The future doesn't stop at 2100. There are people being born now who will see it. We are starting to badly need some narratives for the 22nd Century and beyond.

As for Pinker; the techno-optimists don't seem to get that the Limits to Growth forecasts predicted substantial exponential growth. The huge success and progress we've seen and celebrated by them doesn't invalidate LtoG. The lesson is not that they didn't or can't happen. It's that they can't continue for ever and will inevitably result in over-reach, peak and crash. And that's the part that Pinker et al won't accept. They're attempting to portray and an unlimited rosy future without really looking at all the implications.
TL;DR; Article is very long, 4,744 words.
Last paragraph is summary: "It’s ridiculously simple. But spending more time outdoors during the daytime and dimming the lights in the evening really could be a recipe for better sleep and health. "
Can you force explicit nursery passing though? One might make a global nursery object and then just rely on that.
> they cannot and do not have.

sigh~

In this implementation, or perhaps, in python at all...

Does that make it completely valueless?

I would venture to suggest that maybe there's a big wide world of languages that actually support controlling how threads are spawned, where it might not be.

Maybe its worth considering.
The RISC-V QEMU port is upstream
Voluntary control of reproduction is one of the great success stories of the 20th century; we just need to expand it to those few places where it's not regarded as an important right.

We should replicate the work of Bangladesh: http://www.futurehealthsystems.org/news/2013/11/25/understan...

"Bangladesh has achieved high (62%) contraceptive prevalence and a rapid fall in fertility from 6.3 births per woman in 1971 to 2.3 in 2010—a rate unparalleled in other countries with similar levels of development."
TSB Bank calls in IBM to fix IT meltdown
> controlling reproduction, removing access to healthcare, or killing people. There are no other options I'm aware of.

Education of women, better access to contraceptives, etc.[1] reduce the birth rate of a country which I suspect is what he's referring to.

1: complex issue, http://blogs.worldbank.org/health/female-education-and-child... as a starting point
That's because the major belief system in the west is not Christianity, it's actually neoliberalism: Everyone is responsible for their own fortune. So if someone is unfortunate, it must be their own fault and they deserve it. People may call upon their Christian values, but what they actually do is pretty neoliberal.
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how about you pay back taxes to the US
> "Reducing human population" is a phrase that can only have so many meanings: controlling reproduction, removing access to healthcare, or killing people. There are no other options I'm aware of.

Well, you forgot sending humans away from earth.
> What's the benefit of allowing lootboxes?

What's the benefit of X? They're invented by business as a new way of attracting Y. Why shouldn't this be regulated or banned?

Feel free to substitute X and Y by virtually anything.

> A discussion can be had without words such as "oppressed".

Read the comment to what I was replying.
It's Eugenics by another name; where only the anointed should inherit the earth.
I'm not sure how much the salaries have increased the last couple of years, but I'm regularly seeing offers of 50-60ksek (excluding bonus and options/equity) for a full stack or senior software engineer with a couple of years under the belt. I personally know SWEs that make 100ksek+. Lead SWE positions go for 60-80ksek.
The Google redis service will be serverless if the pricing table is not mapped to „subscriptions“ you choose from but instead automatically chooses the pricing layer each hour based on your stored amount (like automated discounts for vms). Thats what i am saying: We still dont know if you have to choose first which pricing layer you want or if google automatically seitches you to the one fitting the amount you store.

Both requirements would be fullfilled on automatic selection of pricing layer:
1. You sinply store data, google handles the price/gb-hour depending on your stored amount
2. You only store data and you are only billed the stored amount (in 1GB increments)

I just wanted to say we just dont know yet whether its serverless (instance type changed automatically) or you have to choose the instant type first.
I think Waze uses psychology more than their competitors, and I'll tell you how.

They give the appearance of being quicker. Journeys with Waze feel faster. Your brain is more active when driving a Waze route. You remember driving along a Waze route.

Most people when they commute enter autopilot mode. They often can't remember the details of what they were doing 20 minutes ago when they arrive at their destination. People commuting often do not need Sat Navs - they will be driving the same way twice a day for months if not years. To change to an active mode of driving where you pay attention and are out of auto pilot makes it feel more faster. Magicians and story tellers will tell you that it's the memory of the performance or story which counts the most - what the user takes with them after is important, and can be shaped.

More turns, more intersections. More fast stretches of road (and more stops) makes for a more exhilarating experience driving. It might not be more quicker, or it might be. Most (i.e. not HN readers) people won't notice, or if takes a little bit longer, they will feel that it's quicker.

Remember - Waze had gamification built right into the platform. Drivers were encouraged to go out of their normal way, to engage with the platform for years. They know what gamification means at a psychological level.

Regular routing considers shortest path, quickest route, simplest paths, stick to highways etc. Waze prioritises driving that makes the user appreciate Waze more.
Flux is great, but may I also recommend the extension 'deluminate' it really saves your eyes
> we had a policy of telling customers to never run a production site on a t1.micro

It's perfectly safe to run a production site on a t1.micro, as long as you follow good principles regarding monitoring and autoscaling.

You'd be a fool to run a production website on any instance type without those failsafes, but with them in place, a t1/t2.micro is no worse than any other. And in fact, since they boot so quickly, they are really nice with auto-scaling.
Then you would like to have statements as first class objects (e.g., to build them and pass around) and you are one step away from monads of Haskell.

Then you HAVE TO HAVE types, otherwise reasoning about effects in these constructed statements would break your mental spine.

Blasphemy.
I think candy should be outlawed too. I'd actually be OK with make this illegal. Kids are obviously just addicted to the stuff, it is clearly no good for them, and there is a massive industry both virtual (candy crush) and non (physical candy) that preys, sorry, PREYS on humans sweet tooth instinct. Nestle makes a lot of money in convenience stores via this.
> People, writ large, don't want to hear this. Happy stories are far more compelling.

Any evidence to back this up? I would say the fact that news runs on ratings and overwhelmingly offers negative stories suggests it's false.
I am not religious, but I think that Richard Stallman is as close as we can get to an actual literal saint. He has changed the world through his works, will and vision in ways that are still unfolding and that will not be fully understood for a long time. There has been a lot of criticism of the GPL and the principles behind it often by people who do not wish to abide by the licence. This has led to some bitter and unkind criticism of RMS personally. Yet historical saints have always been difficult and determined people and often misunderstood in their own time. It is not an easy avocation.
JavaScript's Tricky Rounding
"Points 1 and two aren't solved in any way, as the buyer has to trust the producer to not lie when making the entry. In other words, the trust problem here occurs before entry into the database."

The blockchain will show in time that X producer sells X amount of extra virgin, virgin, and regular olive oil. This will make it difficult for a small single origin producer claiming that ALL of their output is extra virgin. It would also make it difficult for a small producer to rebrand large volumes of some other olive oil as their own.

As for the temp-sensing stickers - add GPS, encryption and transmitting functions and you can add some cool features to temp sensing stickers.

Finally- there isn't THAT much data involved here for the $$ involved, you could do it on the ethereum blockchain or even the litecoin chain. There are quite a number of ultrasecure blockchains at this point.
Tallinn needs a proper exhibition hall, now
First-Ever Evictions Database Shows: 'We're in the Middle of a Housing Crisis'
So? Latin-based alphabet was in use for Kazakh for about eleven years before Moscow decided to impose Cyrillic on all peoples of Soviet empire (for purely political reasons).
Yes, I agree, that of course a hypothetical ML/AI outperforms any naive and simple solution. But usually magic technology is required to do that, otherwise it wouldn't be magic :)

That said a simple heuristic like "after requesting an URL the server got these requests on the same HTTP/2 connection in less than 1 second, and those were static assets served with Expires headers" could work.
MazeMap – Indoor maps for large buildings such as universities and hospitals
I generally view ML as a family of languages, generally consisting of algebraic data types, pattern matching, first class functions, currying, idiomatically functional.. Members are Standard ML, Ocaml, F#, Elm, Haskell, and to a lesser degree Rust.
Facebook Test Account for Marketing Api?
May be your bank shipped a staging build :o
given current possibilities that is another term for killing people.
> Nevertheless, it is physically possible to build enough roads

Sure it's probably possible, but by the time we've built that many roads we'd need to cycle from the carpark to the building anyway.
> That's quite breathtaking. "Reducing human population" is a phrase that can only have so many meanings: controlling reproduction, removing access to healthcare, or killing people. There are no other options I'm aware of.

Education, better healthcare, better access to birth control? Making people have less children doesn't have to be at gunpoint or forced in any way.
yes - a single catastrophe could be weathered out in many cases, but once multiple events start happening it could quickly get quite unmanageable and then people will start changing behaviors permanently.
Bob Dorough, who set numbers, grammar to music in Schoolhouse Rock, dies at 94
Creating a Selenium Testing Framework in C#
Crime and plotting is much harder to do prospectively than retrospectively. Having prospective records timestamped from a number of independent providers is really hard to fake.
Lower density living is not very good for the environment.
Love the first reply to the release announcement:

Hi Marc,

thanks for releasing this. I found it to be a useful little program, however the Look&Feel seems a bit dated.

Best regards,
Manuel
Conservative put it at 1.4

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg2/index.php?idp=29
My anecdote is that coffee definitely has something besides caffeine that affects the central nervous system. I tend to quit drinking coffee few times a year, and I replace it with heavy tea drinking.

No amount of tea makes the withdrawal symptoms go away. After a week, the physical effects (headache, tiredness) thankfully fade, but nothing seems to help with the depression that comes in a month. Due to that, I haven't really gone beyond a month of not using coffee -- it just doesn't seem worth it.

I would find the people who think that coffee is not a narcotic amusing if they weren't so fucking serious. I really wish there was more scientific data on this. Seems like all studies just focus on the caffeine effects.
How to Write Better Unit Tests in Go Using Mocks – Peter Goetz – Medium
There won't be a substantive discussion about it (at least not by the people who can actively do something about it), because capitalism won't allow it until it's too late. Sure, politicians will talk a lot about how we should really, any day now, start reducing our carbon output, but ask them to actually implement strict measures and the silence is deafening.

Then we have corporations, like oil companies, who for many decades suppressed information and actively tried to distort public discussion about climate change. We have politicians who are either in the pocket of corporations or who support an ideology that opposes them even acknowledging the existence of climate change (or denying the role of humans), as that would hurt stock markets and shareholder profits in the short term. And we have consumers (people aren't really citizens anymore, but consumers first and foremost thanks to capitalism) who are bombarded daily with things they should buy to improve their lives, and who thus refuse to give up things like flying or meat or cheap clothes from the other side of the world.

Combine it all and you get the frog that's being slowly boiled (except the frog is smart enough to get out in time).
Yeah cars are totally unused in Amsterdam.
Another huge reason is that Germany has curbed its subsidized housing program since the early 90s. Every year, hundreds of thousands of apartments fall out of fixed price agreements, but only very few new subsidized housing is built.

(Subsidized housing as in: The government subsidizes your housing project if you agree to fixed rents for a certain period of time, afaik 20 years or so.)
Geothermal energy could be the future of district heating
Is there a patch for drupal 6, as there was for SA-CORE-2018-002?