skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not quiete sure what you're suggesting, sorry. I think there is a distinction between people who are very attractive and very unattractive. If a very attractive person does something stupid -- like getting hella drunk and asking a random stranger out -- people laugh and it's a fun memory. If an unattractive person does the exact same thing it's creepy. I think that's just a fact of life for me, I also don't care how much people here will tell me this is not true, I have seen consistently that the probability of attractive people being labelled "creepy" is significantly less than unattractive people.

It is also true that some people are really adept at social skills maybe due to experience or maybe due to innate, genetic factors. Some people are really fun and fascinating to talk to. Even nerdy, unattractive people! Like, sometimes I get to know people whose only passion in life is mathematics and they're generally very unattractive but they are extremely fun to talk to. I just wanna be around then and listen to their jokes. But some people are not like that, and this makes social interactions inherently harder for them.

I wasn't thinking of cultural biases (I'm mostly thinking of Bay Area cultural context since this is the one I know but I'm assuming it's pretty much the same in most Western cultures) but I guess you can say something about that too. My main point is: talkign to women is extremely easy for some people, and the hardest thing in the world for other. When you simply can't talk to anyone comfortably in non-work context, it's almost impossible to make friends with them. I honestly do not know how to properly make women friends and I'd much rather not make women friends than make them and myself uncomfortable which for me disproves the whole article.
Haven't had a chance to read the fluree paper, but does hyperledger fabric count?

https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.1/led...
There is no single gene that determines skin coloration.

You are right insofar you allow yourself to be imprecise and make sweeping generalizations. Of course a light skinned person is far less likely than a person with darker complexion to have ancestry who lived ca. 2000 years ago in for example south africa, but there's a whole lot of leeway in those 2000 years and at the very least its ignorant of e.g. India. And then the question is whether the question mattersat all.
That's what I've found - the degree of "computer-nerd stoop" that I have directly relates to how much upper body work (and specifically back-work) I've been doing. A few dozen reps of seated row / horizontal row a week, or a lengthy motorcycle commute for a few weeks, completely 'fixes' my posture.
Can somebody explain the need for this new package management thingy when apt exists and works nicely? Why have 2 softwares to do the same thing.
> 1/ MoviePass does not reimburse 100% of the ticket price to all theaters. In at least 1,000 theaters they are getting $3 back or 25% of concessions. This number will continue to increase as moviepass proves they can drive demand.

https://www.wired.com/story/moviepass-second-act/

> It pays theaters full price for each ticket, whether a member visits once or 31 times a month.

Do you have a source for your claim that "In at least 1,000 theaters they are getting $3 back or 25% of concessions"?
It depends on the context. If someone is using their money and status as a way to coax someone into sex then that is objectionable. Then, there is the context that "Philippines/Thailand" bring sex tourism in some peoples' minds. That said, they explained themselves that they aren't exploiting people and most people are just being uncharitable in their reading. I'm just saying it's understandable.

With the metacrap done, I'll say it's weird, especially when there is this odd stigma specifically around white men dating asian women[0]. If anything, thinking it's usually "exploitative" furthers racial stereotypes that asians[0] are somehow more naive and childish than white people.

[0] The idea of an Asian woman itself is a little ridiculous because Asia is a continent, but that's a digression.
because "rationally" i should kill you and take your money and food

but "empathetically" i don't want the same thing to happen to me, so i tolerate your existence in hopes that you tolerate mine
You can see a clear correlation between the amount of Tesla stock being shorted and the number of negative Tesla press that shows up on sites like Hacker News / Reddit. It's surprising how blatant it is.
You have to accept that Kubernetes is a platform, and any platform, no matter how simple or complex, will come with its own set of technical challenges. Complexity isn't in itself isn't an evil. Unix is complex.

Just imagine the complexity of something like APT on Debian/Ubuntu, or RPM on Red Hat/Centos. You could run into a problem with installing a package with apt-get or yum, perhaps some configuration script written in Bash that misbehaves during installation. To fix it, you have to understand how it's put together. The same applies to Kubernetes. You have to know the layers in order to work with them. Someone who doesn't know shell scripts or how init scripts work will not be able to work on Unix. Kubernetes is kind of like an operating system in the sense that it's a self-contained abstraction over something lower-level; the complexity of Unix isn't different, it's just that the design and implementation different.

Helm "just" installs parameterized YAML manifests. But Helm doesn't pretend to be an abstraction that simplifies Kubernetes. It simplifies the chore of interacting with Kubernetes, but in order to really use Helm, you have to understand what it is doing. Specifically, you do have to understand the "1000+ lines" of ingress declaration that it spits out. The notion that you can get around the complexity of Kubernetes with Helm is simply false.

To start with Kubernetes, take a step back, forget about Helm, and simply use Kubectl. You can accomplish everything absolutely you need with "kubectl apply -f". Learn each basic building block and how all of them fit together. Learn about pods before you learn about anything else. Deployments build on pods and are the next step. Then learn about services, configmaps and secrets. These are all the primitives you need to run stuff.

Ingresses are arguably the worst part of Kubernetes, since it's a pure declarative abstraction — unlike pods, for example, an ingress doesn't say anything about how to serve the ingress, it just expresses the end goal (i.e. that some paths on some hosts should be handled by some services). Ingress controllers are probably mysterious to beginners because they're an example of a "factory" type object: An ingress controller will read an ingress and then orchestrate the necessary wiring to achieve the end goal of the ingress.

Moreover, you don't need ingresses. Ingresses were invented a little prematurely (in my opinion) as a convenience to map services to HTTP endpoints have make these settings portable across clouds, but what most people don't tell you is that you can just run a web server with proxying capabilities, such as Nginx. This gist [1], which can be applied with "kubectl apply -f nginx.yml", describes a Nginx pod that will forward /service1 and /service2 to two services named service1 and service2, and will respond on a node port within the cluster (use "kubectl describe endpoints nginx" to see the IP and port). Assuming a vanilla Kubernetes install, it will work.

[1] https://gist.github.com/atombender/af2710818af0921e5c55a9ecb...
> Cultural appropriation hurts when it's done by someone in a position of relative power to amplify their own voice, rather than allow the foreign culture in question to be heard.

Well, given how many people became familiar with South African music—and Ladysmith Black Mambazo in particular—through Paul Simon's music, that seems to be a pretty good description of what he did.
Same here. 44 and counting...
In Berkeley EECS is one department and classes are numbered as levels of abstraction (that was the original idea, it kinda works but somewhat derailed). 100 to roughly 140s are EE courses; 150 is CPU design, machine design, embedded systems etc; 160s is systems (security, operating systems, compilers, networking, software engineering); 170s is theory (algorithms, theory of computation, stochastic algorithms, computational biology); 180s is ... I guess misc high-level stuff (graphics, databases, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning). So from 100 to 189 goes from lowest level (semiconductor physics) to highest level.

190s are reserved for university-wide courses like research, experimental courses, deCal (classes offered by undergrad students) etc...
The main reason i am not moving to something more trendy are kbd macros and the fact that emacs is designed to be equal parts runtime and editor. I think that for most purposes emacs and vim are equivalent but virtually all modern editors are lacking compared to a well good emacs/vim configuration.
Off topic:

Today I learned that in the English language "kilometers" are considered their own unit, whereas in my native tongue (German) we'd understand a kilometer as 1000 meters - and if anyone asked we'd tell them the unit (Einheit) is meters with a si-prefix in front of it. Especially so if that "anyone" happened to be your electronics/maths/etc teacher.

The combination of a unit and a prefix is called "Einheitenzeichen" in German (of course a unit symbol by itself can be an Einheitenzeichen as well). A concept that doesn't appear to exist at all in the English language.

We also don't have a Wikipedia entry for "Kilometer": it redirects to Meter (SI-Prefix-Chapter).

It appears to be one of those many things that are understood just slightly differently in various languages, only affecting understanding in the rarest of edge-cases.
To suggest that reputation is a component of merit is a category error. Reputation isn't part of merit; it doesn't cause merit. Merit may cause reputation.

You probably mean reputation has some positive correlation with merit, so that reputation can be used as a predictor of merit. And of course, you're right.

However, I wasn't addressing how consumers can ascertain merit, but whether merit has similar increasing chacteristics to market success, as described in the article.

That is, if someone starts with a little extra merit than someone else, does it also compound as they practice?

I wanted to exclude competitive factors. For example, Gladwell's Outliers claims that Canadian hockey players have birthdays biased to part of the year, and that this was because the slight age difference makes child players more successful against their sub-year younger opponents in the same age-group. They get more practice and confidence, and get selected for extra training. But, this competitive aspect gives an artificial advantage to players who are slightly relatively better. And also, this advantage is not present just once, but every time they play, for years.

BTW both the points you and I made regarding the merit-market relationship are mentioned in the literature posted by gwern https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17052074 (last link):

> in part because people use the popularity of products as a signal of quality—a phenomenon that is sometimes referred to as “social” or “observational learning” (Hedström 1998)—and in part because people may benefit from coordinating their choices; that is, listening to, reading, and watching the same things as others (Adler 1985).
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3785310/
That looks similar to Rust's enums. The compiler enforces exhaustiveness in pattern matching.

enum WebEvent {
// An `enum` may either be `unit-like`,
PageLoad,
PageUnload,
// like tuple structs,
KeyPress(char),
Paste(String),
// or like structures.
Click { x: i64, y: i64 },
}
> unlike the type system, the enforcement of the convention does not come automatically

This defeats the whole purpose.

> the programmer has to write static analysis code

It is legwork that should be relegated to the computer. And, in fact, has been for a long time. I don't only mean type systems; various linters and checkers work where the compiler proper does not (see valgrind or findbugs). Frankly, a lot of test cases for code can be written automatically; the prime example is Haskell's QuickCheck, but a number of other languages has similar tools, all the way down to fully dynamic ones like Python.
Even further-leaning on that spectrum, I have an acquaintance with complete Aphantasia.

He lives life with a complete inability to experience anything that is not happening at that moment. He cannot picture his mother's face. He can't recall his life. He can't get a song stuck in his head. He can't hear any words in his head at all.

And yet he's an incredibly talented musician, writer, and teacher. When he sits at his piano, the music just happens. He can only compose while working at the instrument.
Chapter 20 of O'Reilly's "Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition" is all about batch editing and covers ed/ex as well.

Maybe there's an old copy of "Unix Power Tools" over in your server room or an abandoned cubicle in the office... the content has not changed much in the ensuing decades!
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Flatpak has been making moves in what I think is the right direction, which is containerization and dynamic privileges[0].

Wayland will also solve a few of these problems.

Personally, I'm of the opinion that the Linux security model is a horribly outdated ticking time-bomb and people really aren't taking it seriously enough. It drives me kind of crazy; a lot of people act like X security is no big deal, like it's fine that our primary security model for Linux is just based on file permissions. I think that once we have a better permissions system in place people are going to look back with 20/20 hindsight and say "Well duh, of course apps should be isolated from each other and the system in general. Everyone knows that."

There are two permissions that my desktop/web/mobile environment doesn't ask me for that would prevent most attacks like this: network access and cpu access.

Network access is obvious. It kind of boggles my mind that apps can by default just access the network and make a request to any server that they want. Blocking that alone would take care of a huge number of crypto miners (and spyware), because they all need network access to operate. There are almost no good reasons I can think of for a desktop app to have network access by default.

The less obvious permission that I think is probably worth exploring is CPU access. I don't necessarily know what a control for that would look like in a standard permission system, but if an app wants to start going crazy with my CPU, whether they're being malicious or just innocently inefficient, my OS/browser/phone should probably bring it to my attention and give me the opportunity to either permanently throttle them or set some kind of ground rules.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4569sjVer54
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They are definitely focusing on form over function these days.
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Large teams of people did those things not a single individual.
It’s prescient in that he identified things in his time which would stay relevant—or even increase—in importance over time.
It's a newer thing on our team for sure. Time will tell if System76 are a good choice.
First, I sympathize with your pain. Don't let your lack of sex be something that reduces your value because it doesn't. For example, a masters degree is an achievement! That means you have a square mind on your shoulders and are willing to work hard. Those are admirable qualities.

I'll also say try not to listen to closely to the stereotypes. I see two in there, one that flirting will be considered harassment if you aren't good looking and the second is that women (or people in general) can't be sexually attracted to someone who isn't "good looking." The reality is many people are a lot more open minded than that. Tinder helps, and if you're more open minded as well about whom you're willing to be with, you might find someone fun and be surprised that you were never as unlovable as you thought you were.
I believe you’re reaching the wrong conclusion based on some poorly worded comments. Which scale one uses may depend on the context: km for distance by car, m for elevation. Your parent is using “units” very loosely to refer to the difference in scale (m vs km) as well as the difference in units (km vs miles).
> See the table below for the breakdown.

I don’t see any table or data on iPhone 6 using safari.
Microoptimizing a couple of things, I'd do this from the top of the buffer:

<F3> M-f M-u C-n C-a C-0 <F4>

I particularly like combining the "finish recording" and "running the macro" steps into a single <F4>. Plus, using a numeric argument of 0 seems better than counting lines.
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If it has been hacked out so much, isn't that a sign that the power cable is in the way? I mean, I place my laptop it's power cord such that nobody can trip on it.
There isn't a moment in recorded history where one human acting alone has outperformed a group of humans working in tandem. It just doesn't happen.

You sometimes get scenarios where one human has disproportionate social control over a group, but even then experiments with democracy have shown it overwhelmingly outperforms the competition. So far on both an absolute and a per capita basis. Many (most?) of our morals also happen to be game-theory optimums that you would raitionally see value in even as a true sociopath.

What you describe isn't rational, it is some combination of desperation and short term thinking. The rational approach has always been to organise and cooperate. If you actually tried to behave that way you would discover that what you call 'behaving rationally' will involve you having no material goods, comfort or prospect for obtaining them.
This, and "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems" are two of my favorite computer-related books. I wish other historical books were as thick and as thorough and well-written.
Your sarcasm isn't convincing or appreciated.
...all the other options (solar, wind, fracking, hydroelectric, geothermal) have very similar environmental impacts to coal energy.

You're going to have to back up that claim with some very strong evidence.
Ask HN: Are Tesla accidents now off-topic?
I posted[1] an article a few hours ago about a Tesla going 60MPH rear-ending a vehicle that was stopped at a red light[2]. I check back a few hours later and the post is marked "[flagged]".

I'm confused, what about this article led to it being flagged? It seems pretty similar to other recent submissions[3,4,5,6], none of which were flagged.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17056262

[2] https://www.ksl.com/?sid=46319215&nid=148&title=police-tesla-slams-into-truck-stopped-at-red-light

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17036436

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17045302

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17030875

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16894353
Something I blogged about not too long ago:

We bitch when white men write only about white male culture as that is exclusionary. We also bitch about cultural appropriation if they write about anything else. We also also bitch about how evil and terrible it is if other cultures feel forced to put their culture on display to try to make money.

Apparently, nothing makes us happy.
For me, it's something to do and a excuse to get together for a afternoon. None of us can feel like "shit, what a waste of money" with MoviePass. It's kinda like if a bowling alley offered all you can bowl for $14.99/month. Do we really want to go bowling every week? Not really, but it's an excuse to hang out outside of work/bars.
Fun flashback to my my Masters research paper where I wrote a system called FlurryDB (unrelated).

http://sysweb.cs.toronto.edu/publications/254
If I could favorite comments, I'd favorite this one.
Yeah, but the things which create corporate profits change over time. Like that pedestrian bridge collapse in Florida, it was like 50 ft from a pedestrian road crossing. I dunno why anyone would pay for that particular type of uselessness. Moving slowly saves you time.
People say the data matters, but I don't see it - data from people who want to watch movies cheaply is worth pretty close to nothing. I say this as someone who uses data a lot to manage millions of dollars in marketing spend.
They're out of cash in two months. They say they can raise up to $300M but their market cap is almost sub $50M so they won't be able to get much for the equity. And as for debt, well we'll see how much they can actually get.
So you want to make an incremental game?
The paper says there aren't practical decentralized solutions, but doesn't mention any prior research/comparisons to existing systems?

How does it compare against:

- IPFS (yes, plenty of people are doing DB stuff on IPFS)

- GUN (full disclosure, I'm the author, https://github.com/amark/gun )

- Scuttlebutt ( http://scuttlebot.io/ )

- Beaker Browser

They go on to talk about "append-only" data structures (this alone does not make a system a blockchain or decentralized, but I don't see any further reasoning on it), because technically, you could do things very similarly with:

- Kafka

- Cassandra

- Couch

And "append-only" is not practical, there are lots of caveats you have to handle (you don't get eventual consistency for free, performance is terrible on reads, etc.), it often times just makes scaling up harder, which is not "practical".

The next section begins to discuss "blockchain" technology, but I don't see code on GitHub:

- https://github.com/fluree/flureedb (empty repo) ?

But their main website is already advertising $1000/month "Enterprise" plans. The whole point of Blockchain and Decentralization is not to be vendor-locked into a proprietary centralized DBaaS. Why isn't the code Open Source?
You can. That's an option on HN. I think you need to click on it to find the "favorite" option.
That may be fine on desktops but absolutely unacceptable on mobile and laptops, due to battery usage.
I hear ya. We probably differ on semantics. To me, the modern notion of "justice" seems to be concerned with the answer to the question "What does my fellow man owe me?". The answer to that question is always "nothing". On the other hand, the answer to the question "How ought my fellow man show compassion to me?" is a different question altogether (to me at least). :)
People are sleeping on hyperdb: https://github.com/mafintosh/hyperdb

It's built from hypercore, the same library powering the DAT protocol.

Also, someone recently wrote a graph database on top of hyperdb: https://github.com/e-e-e/hyper-graph-db
Yes; but the "one" on the tracks is now the passenger in the car. Does the car divert from hitting a bunch of people on the road ahead if it means killing its passenger? With autonomous cars, suddenly a lot of hypotheticals get really real.
You’re misrepresenting me. I don’t understand why recent injustices are more worthy of reparations than older injustices, and when does the statute of limitations expire? I just don’t understand how the accounting works. This is clearly different than “not caring about recent injustices”.
It will be interesting to see an statics on how much it has changed movie viewership. I'm sure there are a couple of Data Scientists or Business Intelligence people at Regal tracking attendance of Moviepass-ers, and I bet they have a plan to introduce a subscription service the minute Moviepass folds.

If I had to bet, MoviePass is the reason my Regal Points expire now.
Moshé Feldenkrais is a pretty fascinating individual. An engineer and physicist, I believe he was one of the first Europeans to earn Black belt in Judo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosh%C3%A9_Feldenkrais