skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the one hand, you complain that you deserve the same right to quiet so your sleep isn't disturbed. On the other, you tell people "If you are a light sleeper, get ear plugs."

I never said I deserve quiet, I pointed out the discrepancy. It's the sleeper that desires the quiet, but different people sleep different hours of the day, especially in a city. I don't write off to my local council every time I'm awoken at 8am by a rubbish truck, even if I'd only gone to bed a few hours before. Why should people who are awake at so-called 'normal hours' be afforded any additional sympathy? And why should their desires override others? What makes them special?

Are people who are awake through the night 'lesser people'? Or not as important in your world view?

If I can sleep through the daywalker's noise, then daywalkers can sleep thru the nightwalker's noise. And if not, then they're probably living in the wrong part of the city. I find it endlessly perplexing that people will move to places known for the nightlife and then start complaining about it once there.
I may be wrong but I think the longer females wait to have children the more health risks they accumulate for themselves and the child(ren).
Workers do have the right to abruptly cut off work, don't they?
I suspect that fields sufficiently similar to Mathematics are a poor fit for the patents and will inevitably adopt the norms of Mathematics research.
That's a highly simplistic and incorrect way of looking at it. Do you know what CSRF is? Do you want to implement it every time you create a website? And all the other XSS vulnerabilities that could occur because you weren't careful.

Frameworks are much better at handling most security needs.
Implementing SSH tunnels in Elixir
Additionally, I find that most of pop is quite manipulative on the emotions. Rather than complexity in the music, it goes for riffs and choruses that pull precisely on some undefinable feeling but which can be broken down into categories of Power, Sexy, Nostalgia, Hypnosis/Rapture-- by which I mean, it gives a feeling of a sort of intoxication or trance. Whether it is intentional or not, that is how I've found it to be. Nostalgia in pop is also recursive.

All music can influence emotions or state-of-mind to some degree, but the lack of complexity in pop music makes it so that this influence is the only "worth" or, perhaps more accurately, purpose of the music. There is nothing wrong with this necessarily, I am just giving another reason why pop and such might be so popular.
Could the US president pardon himself?
It’s about the same, really, both in severity and impact to users.

Routers fall over pretty regularly if you have enough of them so you already have things like MPLS FRR to deal with that.

Sounds like this is for netconf, which is a provisioning system. It failing is more akin to chef crashing on a server from a cosmic ray. Kinda sucks, but you restart it and probably no harm done.
Specifying Memory Models Using Instantaneous Instruction Execution
Interesting. Can you expand on which types of apps wouldn't feel right on iOS if developed in Flutter?
You can't undo the blockchain by breaking ECC. Everything is still provably written there and stored on computers across the globe, private wallet keys that will be vulnerable, not the history.

Hash functions are considered fairly immune from post-quantum cryptography. Applying Grovers algorithm means SHA-256 ends up with 128 bits of security.
Cuntroversy: on reclaiming the C-word
Completely agree with user cstejerean here. You didn't say anything about your car, but I will hazard a guess that it was over 10 years old, but still a somewhat rare or desirable vehicle. Carmax doesn't want vehicles over 10 years old.

Also, to other commentors here, consider tax implications when you compare sale price on a trade-in. If you wind up paying taxes on the sale of your vehicle, that may offset the increase in price on a private sale.
And I just hit on this article:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/03/greece-tourism...

According to which 2018 is an exceptionally good year, so good in fact we might have trouble accommodating all the extra people:

Greece is braced for another bumper year. The tourists will not stop coming. For every one of its citizens, three foreign visitors – 32 million in total – will arrive in 2018, more than at any other time since records began.

Tourist numbers have increased by an additional 2 million every year for the past three years. Arrivals from China alone have doubled since 2017. But with forecasts predicting record numbers over the next decade, a growing number of Greeks are asking: can Greece really cope?
This article isn't really about Peterson, it's about Price's Law. There's certainly some discussion to be had about how that law is conceived/applicable, but you seem to be taking the tack that Price's law is a suspect concept because Jordan Peterson is introducing people to it.

If we're talking intellectual models, I doubt people are going to be impressed by that approach.

Since we're here, though, I'm interested in evidence that Peterson is on the fringes of Psychology (the WaPo link does not make that case; it's not even clear it's a criticism of Peterson, though it arguably damns with faint praise). I think he and his audiences could use more good critics.
Nice. Lucid too.
Google Won’t Renew Drone AI Contract, May Still Sign Future Military AI Contract
Genealogy History
That might not be the universe of your intuitions, but it is apparently the one we have.
> The way to control for the income of a child's household while not filtering out a possible inherited trait, would be to do the test with only adopted children.

It's truisms like this that make me cut psychologists and economists slack when results fail to reproduce.

If experiments are prohibitively expensive or impossible to recruit large enough populations, the right answer isn't to just toss hands up, but to do the best you can with what you have.

So respect to all the people working in "messy" real life fields and still trying to push the frontier of knowledge!
Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It
Rails. Nothing comes close for me in terms of speed of development.
my chat partner said "fuck off nigger" then spammed blank spaces.

in the end, i guessed he was a human.

the thing said he was a robot.

is this accurate?
U.S. Leapfrogs Singapore, Hong Kong to Win World’s Most Competitive Economy
If the ecosystem we're visiting already has life, our life might destroy that life.
What says that there isn't an equal chance of dying from complicated health issues that can't get attended to or mechanical repairs that can't be done because one JUST CAN'T AFFORD it right now?

Don't try to hide behind "it isn't violence". Everything is violence if you think hard enough. We just prune down the scope to what happens to be convenient at the time.

The real qualifier for what makes this "theft" is the asymmetry of value generated for the payer vs. the reward returned to the payee.

Think about if that janitor WEREN'T there. She just stayed home and hardened somehow. No more floor\workspace cleaning, no more trash being emptied, no more bathrooms being restocked, no more Windows being cleaned.

I'd like to see 90% of businesses that hire janitors workplace productivity after not having them around.

Now look at programmers. System's I develop transact billions of times a quarter, generating millions in revenue.

Suppose all of the people capable of developing those services refused to work as well? Things would go along fine for the most part. Millions would still roll in.

So, yeah. It's theft. In BOTH cases. We just like to draw lines between skilled and unskilled labor and say "this person is more valuable than that person".

It's why the phrase "Human Resources" became a thing. It isn't about doing business in good faith with someone else. It's about stroking egos and making the financials look good.

I don't know the solution, but when most normal people I know make 4 times less than the average programmer for an equal investment of their lives to someone else's ends, there is some stinking problem going on, and it isn't just "the market at work". That's a part undoubtedly, but there seems to be something structural underlying it all as well. There is no reason why wage growth should not have scaled with capacity to generate revenue.
Whats weird is he never says exactly what he paid for the Range Rover in the first place. I found a post where he said it was in the 30s. but why not tell that info?

Then could compare Car cost + warranty vs private party purchase.
Not the original poster but I don't think he is decrying democracy. When he says cancer, it is not democracy he is talking about, he is talking about lack of worker rights which should be rectified in the context of democracy. I believe he is agreeing with his parent post – democracy with socialist aspect, similar to France and in turn agreeing with you - similar to EU.
This is sort of a sideways answer... I wrote some D code for a bit and I enjoyed it. The FFI story is solid and that made interop nice. That said, GC may be a concern for timing sensitive code.

That said, since Rust hit 1.0 and the language got cleaned up, I’ve stopped writing D at all. Not plugging Rust, just the facts. Better language for my space.
Show HN: Augmented Reality App to Predict the Sun and Moon's Location
This guy got most of his fame from internet (and piracy). I remember reading about "Fight Club" in Usenet and ftp'ing it from "Russian Deep Repository". Ordering lesser-known paper books from America would have been difficult and costly.
I ended up getting nearly twice as much from CarMax as I was offered from any dealers. However, I suspect this was because there was a serious problem with the steering column that CarMax missed in their inspection that the dealers did not.

Either way, the process was painless enough that I don't think it can hurt getting an additional valuation.
Years ago the (obvious to me) revelation that all these different services and tools are showing slices and summaries of the same larger article. Twitter is a headline publisher. Slashdot/HN/lobsters/Facebook are publishing the summary paragraph. Email and blogs are still the host for the long form article.

Take a stroll through journalism textbooks, identify all the parts of a successful publications lifecycle, and provide all elements and you might reinvent publishing such that it satisfies all the current and future needs while still meeting the old style too.
And the best bot trained on that corpus will still sound like a bot.
That's not what GIT says. See https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/ for a description of what it does say.
The High Cost of Abandoned Property
Yes, that was my experience on the nand2tetris course, which teaches that as project 10 and 11:

http://nand2tetris.org/course.php

Interestiny, the toy language you’re writing a compiler for doesn’t have operator precedence except for parentheses, so it sidesteps that problem.
What proof do you have that young people didn't vote for Brexit?
I wonder if this is the wrong way to go about it. You could design a spacecraft so it's heat resistant, and then once it's fully assembled, stick it in an oven and heat it to say 200C and just let it sit for a couple of days, or however long it takes to heat all the way through.

I'm sure this would present some design challenges, but it doesn't seem to me like it would be insurmountable.
Please stop making up facts. No one is entitled to "several times" what they put in to social security. It comes out pretty close to even [1]. And that's if you completely ignore the time-value of money. If you treat social security as a wealth fund (like you're supposed to) rather than a "I'm paying for my parents" fund, the average person is getting less because their contributions should be earning a huge amount of interest over their working life. Remember, too, that if you're self-employed or make a lot of money you're going to get back significantly less than you put in because of the way the caps work. There's a good chance that a successful childless person is going to subsidize the social security payouts for people who sacrifice career have a bunch of kids.

The only place you get significantly more than you put in is Medicare, and that's because healthcare costs in America are out of control. More kids doesn't help that.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisconover/2012/12/03/aarp-lo...
I only speak English but the few times I tried the stranger spoke another language. Couldn’t actually have a conversation. Cool idea though.
follow-up thought:

is it gaming the turing test to the point of breaching the spirit of the test by having the robot be the worst version of humanity as conveyed on the internet?

in other words: is the turing test meant to hypothetically carry over into non-digital media, or should we only expect it to be a useful measurement when it comes to purely digital interactions?
AI researchers design 'privacy filter' for your photos
I sold my truck last week to them for 16200. KBB online "instant offer" was 18k. I went to the dealership that KBB directed me to and their official offer was 13000. The salesman told me KBB's offer wasn't official and was just meant to get me to their lot.

So I went back to carmax and sold it for the 16200. I might have gotten a bit more on Craigslist or eBay but my time is worth more than that. Whole transaction took less than an hour.
GoJsonQ v1.0 released
I think something more fishy is going on. Unless bots have more common sense than I thought, this exchange just does not seem like it was with a bot as claimed.

Me: If you push your finger into a cake will the cake move relative to the table it is on?

Stranger: Depends on the amount of friction. For almost any normal table, the cake won’t move.

Me: Thanks!

Stranger: The bots they made are so weird

You predicted: human
Correct answer: robot (-1 points
The whole article is based on the premise that poor people don't live to old age. What a load of nonsense.
so sorry! it learns from other chats
The difference of 800 for a car in that price range is far from significant.
I don't know why I bother to do this...but..

I like this...I'm reading through the documentation now. Zig looks really cool. I've seen a lot of modern C replacements but this...this is the first one i've seen that really looks like a modern C replacement.
Some parts that stood out for me
- 2-7 bit signed and unsigned integers

- wrapping/non-wrapping operators

-slices and arrays

-decent builtin testing

-null and undefined having separate meanings

From what I can tell it has a lot of the safety features I like about D, without a garbage collector.

I've seen a lot of new languages pop up on hn recently. This is the first one I think I'm going to sit down and take some time to just play around with.
If you see a used car at the dealer, definitely negotiate it there too. Look the car up on CarFax and see if they acquired it at auction, then look up the average auction price for that year/model/trim and you'll have a good idea how much room they have to work with. Most dealerships make more money selling a used car than a new car so there's usually a healthy margin for you to take a piece of.

Source: my dad runs a dealership and I have negotiated used car prices at other dealerships.
>the Bitcoin Cash network is highly efficient and can process a lot of transactions with the same energy requirements.

Untrue. It's one order of magnitude better. That doesn't make it "highly efficient." Bitcoin is well over four orders of magnitude less efficient than Visa, which is appalling. Even a tenfold improvement over Bitcoin is still dog shit.

And that's comparing to Visa, which isn't reasonable. Chat messages don't need the same guarantees as financial transactions. There's no need to put every chat message in a single ACID database. A system built specifically for chat (like Tox) can scale far better.

>You would need to pay a fees of around a cent to send each message.

Only because Bitcoin Cash isn't used for anything. If people start building applications that stress the network (like your chat application!), those fees will skyrocket. Fees are only low as long as the system has spare capacity.

Low transaction fees are only evidence that the system is underused, which means no one's found a use case yet.

>We believe that as the Bitcoin Cash network becomes stronger, transaction fees would get even cheaper.

Blockchains are anti-scalable. As the network gets bigger and more popular, it gets no faster at all. It just gets vastly less efficient. More miners means more power consumption and more users means more congestion. There is no known way to scale these systems.
Wouldn't hard for the politicians to mandate a temporary emergency credit for chip cards and readers, to be used when the network is down.

The banks and Visa could share the credit risks, to give them some incentive to make services that works.
It could be a need to prove their sofistication. Just as our culture distances itself from grunt work even if it’s a crucial part sustaining our everyday life.
Chrome and Firefox Leaking User Facebook Data Since 2016
>> The precise cause of the civil war was the domestic policies of the Assad regime

> https://www.sott.net/article/377588-Syrian-War-for-Dummies-T....

Sott.net doesn't seem like a very reliable source. This appears to be a friendly description of it in a related wiki (https://thecasswiki.net/index.php?title=Signs_of_the_Times):

> SOTT is a research project of the non-profit Quantum Future Group (QFG) and is run by volunteers. The project includes collecting, arranging, and analyzing news items that seem to best reflect the movement of macrocosmic quantum energies on the planet. This research further includes noting whether or not human beings, individually and/or collectively, can actually remember from one day to the next the state of the planet, and whether they are able to accurately read that information and make intelligent decisions about their future based on that knowledge. In short, SOTT is an experiment.

> While the site began as a one-woman operation, this work quickly attracted some truly fine, open minds – people interested in truth, many of whom are scientific professionals and whose work on SOTT is anonymous for their own protection. SOTT and QFG has been attacked, suppressed, and marginalized by the Powers That Be in ways that no other work has been, leaving editors and researchers with the distinct impression that they must be on the right track.

"the Powers That Be" links a page about the "Matrix Control System."

This is a much less friendly description of the person who founded sott.net: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Laura_Knight_Jadczyk.

> and note the nice sidebar on the right "Covert United States involvement in regime change", it's not there by accident.

1) That lists the Syrian civil war. 2) It doesn't contradict anything that I said.

The precise cause of the present Syrian civil war was the domestic policies of the Assad regime. No one pretends that the US was friendly or neutral towards that regime prior to the war. I would not surprise me if the US took some action against it prior to that, but those actions were unsuccessful and not causally linked to the civil war (beyond butterfly-effect level stuff).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore:

> "Launched in 2012 or 2013"

That post-dates the beginning of the Syrian civil war.
> As an example I once ported an Elm project to Clojurescript and it was a 4x reduction in lines.

I'm curious to hear more about this. I'm someone who's used Elm at work, and on the side is interested in Lisp.
After reading, I chuckled and realized the title could have been: "Residents use Arduinos to tell at kids on their lawn..."
Except that websites are intended to be functional while songs are intended to be works of art.

Thats the problem. Why are we treating music like an industrial product? (The answer is money)
The article kind of dismisses carvana because their profit per unit is low compared to the rest. But, carvana's model is the future. I don't know what their financials are like, but if they are surviving on $902 profit per unit then they have the potential to surpass carmax and be the walmart of used cars... low profit per unit, but huge volume.
What? Negative reviews? Why would anyone do that? Get fMRIs of their brains. That lump of entitlement is pressing down on important parts of the brain.
First impeach, then litigate.
> The two most similar songs from 2007 to 2011 were Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” and Kesha’s “We R Who We R” , and they indeed sound alike.

I disagree. I just listened to both songs on Spotify, and they do not sound alike. Different keys, different vocal ranges, different voices, different instruments (or at least, different synthesized sounds). The Kesha song has more electronic effects on her voice. Kesha raps, while Katy doesn't. Really, the main similarity between the two songs is that they repeat the same chord progression through the whole song -- that's probably a consequence of what John Seabrook calls "track and hook".
That’s not what I meant! If you sleep in a really dark room; if you do not take your phone into your bedroom; if you do a short breathing exercise before you sleep, then, scientists tell us that your body will secrete melatonine and you will feel happier. This is hot short term! Not sure why people are offended by this fact.
Xiaomi's global smartphone marketshare increases by 124% over last quarter
Why can't both be true?

In both your examples, you can have tremendous diversity, craftsmanship and sophistication within a quite narrow range of parameters.

You could say "artistry" (bold statements, individual expression, etc) has been replaced by "design" (sophisticated choices based on following existing trends and extended them just the right amount, standing out not too much, not too little, etc).
The more difficult an update is, the fewer cars get it. Many people unknowingly buy used cars that have outstanding maintenance notes and recalls.
Wow, you’re not kidding. “Craps on own employer” is a heck of a lot worse than what someone’s resume says.
> it's basically Germany. You totally can take 18 months of paid paternity leave (not full-salary, but something like $2400 a month, same as women get), and companies are not allowed to refuse you.

That's actually better than Germany. Parental leave in Germany is 14 months for both parents together, with the additional restriction that each parent can only take 12 months maximum. In practice, most mothers take 12 months off and most fathers take the other 2 months off. I've seen other setups though, like both parents taking 7 months off each.
Have you read Adler & Van Doren? I thought I knew how to read until I read that book. hehe
Max Howell created a distro, not a compiler, so that's not relevant to parent's comment. Howell said that he couldn't do core computer science things (like compilers, and NOT whiteboard trivia), that he was better at cobbling together scripts that solve user problems well. Maybe Google was wrong to pass him over, but if they were it wasn't because "they didn't care that he could write a compiler".

As Howell wrote: "I am often a dick, I am often difficult, I often don’t know computer science, but. BUT. I make really good things, maybe they aren't perfect, but people really like them".
I don't think it's a truism. I would have never wondered about the marshmallow test amongst adopted children had this study not been done.
> The answer is money

The individual artist or producer which want's to have a number one song is not driven mainly by money. The drive is just wanting to be the best. And being the best in such a competitive field requires having a highly polished product.