skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like the post's author is dismissing that there are lonely people out there because Brooks wrote something that overstates their numbers.

Indeed. It should be clear that measuring loneliness is quite difficult given measuring any feeling is hard and given people may define "not lonely" relative to whatever they've experienced as that rather than some absolute criteria.

Certainly, one might attribute the growing epidemic of opioid addiction and suicide to loneliness - or to despair but it seems reasonable to attribute it to something like that.

And there's no reason loneliness, inequality and etc aren't connected problems. Once, one could point to those with lower incomes still having the vibrant social life of "the streets" but the poverty of those in outer suburbs does not necessarily generate that same situation.
A lot of people ignore the cost of discrimination to the person who is discriminating. When you discriminate against someone you are eliminating the profits you would gain from doing business with them. In highly competitive markets with low profits you have limited ability to discriminate as your company will go out of business if it chooses to do so. In less competitive markets (monopolies) you are more likely to see discrimination since there is less of a cost paid by the discriminator.

There is no magic wand to end discrimination entirely, but encouraging highly competitive markets is the best way to bridge the gap.

If you want more detailed information about market discrimination, I suggest you read "Product Market Structure And Labor Market Discrimination"[0] The same principles apply to the housing market.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Product-Market-Structure-Labor-Discri...
A Real-Life Enchanted Forest
Nothing. It was not suggested.

I just extrapolated a bit too unconstrained maybe.
Okay, you can accuse me of erecting a straw man now.

But the thing is, I don't know how many times I've seen this (or very similar) debates unfold. Definitely getting a bit tired of it, to be honest. So I just though, why not skip ahead a bit, leave out some of the usual steps, you know?
but the backbone of moonshots tend to be 'boring commodity businesses' o.0
No. Relativity is actually a special case if this general principle.

For a large and complex network, events A and B which are very far apart cannot be compared in any canonical way. The larger the network the less they can be compared.

However, A can come before B relative to some reference point C.

That’s enough to achieve most things. The point is that you shouldn’t have a global and continuous sense of time in distributed systems. Leslie Lamport has developed many things including vector clock over the years to address this.

Our PTN is just the latest in a long line of examples.

When you say that you have “no need” for C once you have synchronized clocks, not only are you ignoring relativity but you are also ignoring the byzantine generals problem. If Han Solo can benefit from claiming he shot first, why would I trust his clock? If you’re implementing a video game or cryptocurrency in a byzantine resilient way, how exactly would you have a continuous global sense of time? Go ahead the floor is yours.
Interview with predictive analytics CEO (Reflektion)
Amazon exec: Orlando police can use our software to find the mayor on CCTV video
Humans actually are kind of single-threaded, excessive multitasking has a measurable impact on mental performance. It's trivial to observe for yourself. Try to read and book and interrupt reading every few minutes. You will notice that you will both have to spend more time (by definition), and retain less information. Not to mention that interrupting actual conversations to stare at your phone seems kind of rude, asocial and inconsiderate.

>(wherein denying the validity of the argument automatically means it applies to the denier).

this isn't really a great point when it comes to addiction, because it's a genuine behaviour among addicts, not just a way to attack one personally. Addicts will downplay or deny the role their addiction plays in their lives categorically.
It could just be that bike shares aren't profitable in northerly cities with long cold winters.
Repasting melvinzzz's comment below (it's dead for some reason):

Here the way autodiff for a simple 1-D concatenation is computed. First we write the concat itself:
function (A[SA], B[SB]) -> (O) {
O[i : SA + SB] = +(A[i] + B[i - SA]);
}
Note, that SA and SB are the sizes of the two tensors, and due to the way that edge case handling works, either A or B is out of bounds and thus equivalent to zero for each index i of O. Now in the case of +/+ accumulation/combination, the autodiff writes the derivative of each input as the sum over only the output (rather than multiplied by the other inputs as in the +/* case). This gives us:
dA[i : SA] = +(dO[i]);
dB[i - SA : SB] = +(dO[i]);
A further reduce/defract slightly changes this to:
dA[i : SA] = +(dO[i]);
dB[i : SB] = +(dO[i + SA]);
which basically extracts the proper portion of the derivative of dO into dA and dB respectively.
Why Grace and not Jobs/Gates/Woz? Please elaborate - I'm curious.
He seems to be addressing a specific claim, that loneliness is an epidemic and trending up, which doesn't seem to be the case. Sensationalized news is deception and in that sense, not news.
Businesspeople optimizing for numbers is the reason enough money exists that some can be given to charity.
not all democrats are progressive. or, perhaps more to the point, not all democrats are non-reactionary.
It's indeed delusional to claim that Bitcoin developers have peoples' financial assets in mind when they celebrate fees of $50 and produce nothing else than "wait for second layer solutions they will magically solve everything".
Wait, what? When I posted this article an hour ago I did so with the exact headline used in the New York Times: "Every Cell in Your Body Has the Same DNA. Except It Doesn’t." Now it's got a new title (here, not in the Times). What gives? Who did this?
Problem with an impactor (besides any trailing analytical probes being sandblasted by ejecta) is that its a permanent expirement that can screw up any future passive observational experiments

That being said, if we do eventually find another retrograde asteroid that is otherwise unremarkable, I would be all for an extreme speed impact experiment. If it's close enough to the sun we may even get some low grade relativistic effects being observed
I'm aware of this concept but the comparison to Naked and Afraid and literally sterile ants made me think he was referring to some distinct idea.
Why? <Insert any bad/questionable/controversial thing> is already there.

Just because something is out there does not mean you want more of it.
That’s a fair point, which makes me feel even more convinced that we should be more focused on whether the technology actually works than whether it’s Orwellian.

Using Rekognition for this would be like hiring a fraudster construction company to build a local bridge. The bridge could collapse, nobody did publicly verifiable due diligence, and nobody would be held accountable. This could be the automated surveillance equivalent.
Mark Zuckerberg Discusses Data Privacy with European Parliament President
> Everything else is secondary

Including solvency? Noble goals don't keep debt collectors at bay.
Katran: A scalable, high performance network load balancer
Was oil a "boring commodity business"? Many oil companies made very high profits.
It's not very performant compared to other v-doms https://rawgit.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/master/we...
Hacker news, Soylent news, Slashdot
But if your default reaction is to just say, "Sorry" but not seem to mean it, that's not really powerful at all.
> But still, downvotes = disagreement,

Nope, downvotes can be for many reasons, disagreement is not required to downvote. (I often downvote comments that I agree with and find non-useful in context, and upvote comments I disagree with but which contribute to productive discussion.)
> the collectively bargained agreement with an employer affects everyone under the scope of that agreement. This includes people who are not members of the union. The contract is for everyone within a bargaining unit.

Only because unions choose only to make contracts that cover non-members as part of their bargaining unit.

> The free rider problem occurs once so called right to work gets enacted. There is no free rider no because everyone pays fair share

There is no free-rider problem. Unions are free to create contracts that don't consider non-members to be part of the bargaining unit. That court ruling is 80 years old and completely uncontroversial and uncontested. Unions have systematically refused to do that, because they'd rather take an "all or nothing" stance.

It makes for a great political stance to pretend, "oh, we have to charge these other people fees because otherwise we'd be giving them representation for free", but in reality, they're the ones who are refusing to do business any other way. There is no free-rider problem, and there never has been.
Being an app developer and producer this seems outrageous what you can do. If anyone takes a video or image, you can track other people's faces in the scene that may or may not be your users, can gather graph info about how they are related and essentially have a wrapped up motive/alibi etc about how a potential crime could have taken place using AI and auto deliver to authorities. All this from a non-opt-in mechanical turk approach where no user is compensated or willingly testifies. What the hell do you call that? A police state?
It's not a dupe. This article gathers up info from multiple and later sources--Intel, Red Hat, etc. and how to deal with it--not simply the first mention of the problem.
As long as they're not doing something dangerous like hair braiding or interior decoration I think we'll be ok.
This was fascinating.

Can you recommend any good books about genetics and natural selection to people who don't have a biology background? I can handle some math, but I just break software for a living and I don't know biology.

Sorry for the sidetrack, but thanks for posting this. I've always wondered about some of the higher order implications of natural selection, and ants are a great example. Like how megacolonies take in ants from other places, that's so crazy because it doesn't make sense once you're looking at a small enough perspective but makes perfect sense at a larger scale. Bees are cool too.
> this is widely accepted...

> Literally everyone knows that...

> again, widely accepted...

Ah yes, the "make wild claims and then say everyone agrees" tactic.
But I do see danger. Both in the misapplication of this unproven tech, and in the opportunity cost of wasting public funds on it.
Many people, unfortunately, want blood and 'justice', not helping hands and forgiveness for thieves. Perhaps if we highlight just how much 'torture' addicts feel as they go off drugs in a rehab hardliners might be convinced to support drub rehab as a fully funded public policy.
Poking around there does seem to be a fair amount of overloading of the term! Even Arnold's website jumps between using ray tracer [0] and path tracer [1].

[0] https://www.solidangle.com/arnold/
[1] https://www.solidangle.com/about/
This hack results from a basic design error: for difficulty adjustment to work properly, the window of recent blocks it considers must be relatively immune to time stamp manipulation. In other words, the allowed timestamp drift must be much smaller than the adjustment time window.
Bitcoin allows a 2 hour drift, but has an adjustment window of 2 weeks.

In verge's case, both are identical, at 2 hours. This is an open invitation to difficulty adjustment abuse.
Azure container instances arrive
>> "most cars are powered by electricity in 10 years"

> Unlikely. The average age of a car on the road is about 11.5 years (source: http://news.ihsmarkit.com/press-release/automotive/average-a...), so even if electric vehicle sales went to 100% tomorrow (and they won't), this wouldn't be true. It's possible fuel prices will skyrocket in the meantime and get people to scrap their ICEs, but with fracking and other deep extraction, I wouldn't bet on it.

I think this is extremely likely, but let's clarify: it might not be that most existing cars in 10 years will be powered by electricity, but I feel strongly that EVs will dominate new car sales. As a caveat, your 11.5 year number refers only to US cars. Oil price fluctuations are basically irrelevant at this point: EV battery pack prices are only decreasing, ranges are only increasing. Aside from that, EVs win on cost of ownership (maintenance, electricity costs), noise, and power.

>> "if Tesla can make those cars with sufficient margin and quality control"

>Possible, but I think it's unlikely. Despite year after year of promises by Musk, Tesla still struggles with both margins quality control, and I haven't seen any evidence that it's getting better (and there's every reason to believe it will get worse as they seem a bit desperate to scale up production)

Tesla's margins from Models S and X are healthy (mid 20%s). Their spending is almost entirely from capex -- which would be expected from scaling up a battery plant and new model line. Operating costs Q12018 were 1.05B (model 3 at 2k/week), operating costs Q12017 were 925M (model 3 not in production).

"Every reason to believe that [quality control] will get worse as they seem a bit desperate to scale up production" doesn't make sense?
1.85 times UK median wage (1.6 times the median for my age bracket). About the same as a train driver [0] [1]

If you look at households with two adults and two children, this kicks in just below the median [2]

The upshot is that I do £1k overtime, which costs my employer £1138, and I keep £400
My collegue who earns 50% as much as me keeps £600
My contractor collegue who is paid twice as much gets paid that £1138 and he keeps £682
My part time collegue who does 5 days a fortnight and gets paid more per day than I do keeps £670 (as does her husband who does the same shift pattern - so they have the same pre-tax household income but far more post-tax)

Not exactly progressive.

[0] https://www.virgintrainscareers.co.uk/VacancyInformation.asp...
[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/15/how-well-off-are...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/mar/25/uk-incomes-how...
It is worth noting that the cost of correcting inaccurate software has gone down.

Looking at the decision to adopt some defect prevention strategy in software.
Cost of strategy < ∑(perceived chance of a defect being prevented)*(cost of the defect + cost of correcting the defect)

1968 vs 2018
Cost of strategy
I doubt this changed much. For some strategies, this changed a lot, like Buy vs Build where the cost to buy has gone to near zero due to npm, NuGet, CPAN etc.

Cost of the defect
I doubt the perception of this changed much, whether that is accurate is up for debate. Software defects are prone to long tail events that will have a disproportionate effect.

Cost of correcting the defect
This went to engineers send on a plane with physical media to some customers mainframe to floppies in the mail to downloadable patch installers to asking the customer to patch from the application to pushing code and letting automated build, deploy, test and background updates. Compared to 1968 the cost went almost to zero.

Strategies have to be better or cheaper to be adopted vs 1968; because the costs of defects have plummeted for many organizations. Unfortunately, the author only references "cost" once in the 15 pages.
IMO, the problem of composing renderers is solved at the component level. Each component should be able to freely choose its rendering library and control its own encapsulated DOM without interfering with other components, or leaking it's choice of template library to the outside.

Web Components and Shadow DOM make this possible. You can mix and match components that use lit-html, Polymer, Preact, etc., and mostly likely HyperApp.
> This is no different than of someone just happens to own a whole bunch of silver, and the price of silver goes up in the future.

Silver is a natural scarcity.
Bitcoin is an artificial scarcity.
To get 10% of Earth's silver supply one will need to invest a lot of equivalent real-life resources.
Satoshi just very cheaply early-mined 1M bitcoins.

> Deflationary currencies are not a new thing.

Commodity-based (i.e. based on natural scarcity) deflationary currencies are not a new thing, but "cryptocurrencies" are based on an artificial made-up scarcity, not even on a math-based scarcity (PoW math puzzles used for leader election only).
Now, post pictures and funny slogans on the app i wrote, to keep that facade going behind which all these people crumble to dust. All in a solitary cofinement of the delusion that all others are happy- its just something wrong with them, but at least they fake it till they make it.
This can't be used directly for generating OTP tokens (see the other comments), but what would stop you with a normal key on the secure enclave is that you can require the enclave itself requires a higher level of authentication (facial scan match, fingerprint scan) to perform those key operations.
Epic Games will provide $100M for Fortnite esports tournament prize pools
Um, no, it does not only lead to one conclusion, especially not that one.
I found this very enlightening, thank you.
By your definition I'd argue that everything is political. The internet, because it was initially funded by ARPA, is deeply political. This devolves into logical absurdity.

> Support for this inflammatory claim is called for here.

HN was initially very friendly to discussion of Wikileaks when it was revealing the misdeeds of the Bush administration and foreign governments. But more recently some more beloved political figures have come under attack and now anything about WL on HN is quickly removed.

What is WL? To some it is a journalistic organization. It symbolizes the place where there is first amendment related tension between the people and the government. It is not fundamentally different from other news orgs (many publish leaked info), it just does so in a way that irritates those in power.

HN mods have actively suppressed this, etc. I need to stop typing b/c surely they have throttled this account by now so not sure it's worth time explaining further. Many examples abound.
If you have to dodge questions and lie to avoid making your company look bad, it's probably a sign that you're doing something you shouldn't be doing.

This looks even worse coming from someone who runs a company that seeks to destroy the concept of privacy for the entire population (or, at least, the portion of the population that can't afford to buy the houses around their own and build 6 foot walls around 750 acre Hawaiian retreats for themselves like Zuckerberg has). The hypocrisy is incredible.
A lot of people don't think much of him, and I completely disagree with his ultimate stated vision, but it's one hell of an accomplishment to take a company from $0-531 Billion in your 20's and early 30's, do it while retaining talent and growing and have people as committed now as they were 10 years ago. Doing that requires a very special person.
I'm not sure I follow what your argument is here? Just for your information, Robert Sapolsky is a neuroendocrinologist from Stanford who has been studying this exact subject for the past 4 decades. The book agrees with your point that looking for a single reason to explain human behavior is impossible and a lot of things contribute (hence why he covers so many determinants of behavior, such as what is going on in your brain, your genes, what is going on with your hormones, where you were born, how you were raised, etc).

I don't see why the nature vs nurture debate is stupid or why how old it is matters? Clearly both things determine human behavior. The main point to be made in Sapolskys book is that almost all determinants of your behavior are out of your control. You don't choose which country you're born in, what genes you have, whether your brain develops properly, whether your parents are kind people or terrible people, what neighborhood you grow up in, what race or gender you are. Perhaps you should read Sapolskys book.
Unfortunately the "cost" of poor performance is sometimes pushed to the public, or worse, subsets of the public. Consider the million-name-long restricted fly list of the last decade -- they were nice juicy profitable projects for corporations but the cost was borne by a subset of mostly innocent people sometimes lost all ability to fly. If the costs are compartmentalized enough, sometimes the general public doesnt care (see: NYC's Stop and Frisk policy.)
> Why limit it to the USA?

Threat modeling always considers the force your adversary is capable of bringing to bear against you.

If you are a US citizen, residing in the US, then the US is far more capable of capturing and throwing you into a 6'x6' steel box than the government of Russia or China.

Russia and China may very well be worse actors than FVEY, but if they can't actually get at you, then it's best to worry about who can.
I think part of the issue is that his company, the one he's supposed to be leading and is fully responsible for, got to a point where he would be pressured to throw it under the bus for his principles. If he was a good leader, it shouldn't have gotten that far (unless, of course, what happened with Facebook was actually in line with his principles).
Also, from what I’ve been able to deduce, the AWS services are all just built on top of EC2 [un]modified open-source software until they reach a level of complexity where they roll their own, which leads to lots of issues that can take years to fix. Some things are telling, like banning two consecutive hyphens because something somewhere in that pipeline is shelling out.
Citibike (in NYC) allows unlimited length checkouts, but simply starts charging by the hour past a certain grace threshold. It's not a huge surcharge either, roughly comparable to the amount that the electric scooters cost starting from the first minute.

You sure that Ford Bike (or whatever it's called) I'd wny different?
Any planned support for Desjardins?
The sort of loneliness that impacts life negatively is probably more of a mental space than a physical one. While Mandela was isolated, he was not without cause or without allies even if he was physically separated from them.

If you're on a purposeful mission you can endure a lot of destitution. The loneliness that is making the news is more of a secular malaise. People without purpose, task, meaningful communities to be part of, and so on. They might not even be literally lonely in a physical sense.
Assuming people are actually auditing the open source firmware.
Minute Media nabs $17M to expand its user-generated sports media platform
Is it possible to add (Cryptocurrency) after ‘The Verge’ in the title please? I thought it referred to the news outlet.
That's another thing: "high-meta" languages allow individual developers to re-invent the flow-control wheel in their own image (personal preferences). Consistency is often more important for team readability than factoring (compact code). One man's "clever" can be another's spaghetti code. What works well for individual projects often doesn't scale to larger and often-changing teams.
>Is smartphone addiction really a thing that needs this constant coverage? I use my phone quite often but I've never felt controlled by it or like I need it.

An alcoholic would say the same exact thing. :-) Just sayin!
Any samples and playlists?
Wha? A 24 hour engineering team? Who they hell did they think they were going to hire to do engineering at 3am? Maybe they mean quality control engineers for a 24 hour production line? Medtronic does this, but the QC guys are really only there for when the lines mess up.
From the HN guidelines:

> use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

The original title was arguably both. :-)
Loving Polymer 3.0 and the new lit-element (which I believe just straight up used lit-html behind).