skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point about the format.

I'd argue that the distinction between a novel and an essay etc. could be classified as an "elementary school question", though.

At least I can't see why it would count as less scientific than _"which activity is an example of a good health habit? (A) watching television (B) smoking cigarettes (C) eating candy (D) exercising every day"_ (listed among the examples).
Interstellar travel is definitely possible. The only question is how long the trips take. You can build nuclear pulse propulsion vessels fairly easily that can reach a few percent of the speed of light. Those things can cross the Milky Way in less than ten million years.
Tried it recently but it has some flaws, like locking up the browser when viewing ~5k values in a 3d scatter plot when viewed from certain angles.
First, we know with absolute certainty that here is substantially different from anywhere else: we know there's life here, we haven't found life anywhere else. (And the null hypothesis is that we haven't found it because it doesn't exist.)

Second, it's a waste of space only if 1) it was created on purpose and 2) the purpose wasn't "to allow us space to expand". If either of those is false, I don't see how it can be called "a waste of space".
It seems to me that despite the tech, Netflix video quality is really horrible. Youtube is consistently much higher quality, even though Netflix's own "fast.com" tells me my connection is capable of 75Mbps downstream. Which should be enough for crisp 1080p. Multiple times I've been so frustrated with Netflix's quality that I've started a movie, stopped it because it looked like something out of a VCR, torrented the true 1080p version and watched that.
The news is that now we have a detailed 66 page economics paper written about it.
You should check out the newly redesigned NimForum[1][2]. It is written 100% in Nim using Jester and Karax (a Nim framework similar to React). Karax itself has a number of examples in its repo[3], we're also always happy to help you out if you want to pop into IRC or post questions on the forum :)

P.S. Thank you for the kind words about Nim in Action!

1 - https://forum.nim-lang.org/

2 - https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum

3 - https://github.com/pragmagic/karax/tree/master/examples
I've read a lot of this literature in the past, but I can't say I agree with it with certainty. The researchers who performed these studies seem to have just as much uncertainty about it, and underlying that sentiment, I think there's quite a bit of subtext in the conclusion that explains why.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330791/#__sec1...

I'm not looking to pick at the trope argument here. I just really don't know if these kinds of evidence are evidence enough to use such research to support oneself in one's own sense of what it means to take care of oneself. When you lead with a statement that is an absolute, with a citation to a respectable publication, I mean, the conclusion in the publication simply is not an absolute, and there are many reasons given as to why that is the case.
If you take anything that blocks certain dopamine receptors (as some bipolar meds do) that might affect it. I've heard claims that SSRI can cause downregulation of the other neurotransmitters over time, but I don't think I've read a study of that.
Why is every post asking questions WRT the effects of gender and migration being caveated so dramatically? It would appear people are afraid to even ask about what seem to be obvious relevant factors. There are noticable differences in the IQ averages between gender groups as well as origin, but the plasticity of IQ has also been established. The fear of reprisal and condemnation for wrongthink is starting to resemble Puritan New England. I sincerely hope we don't start burning witches...
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Looks like it's US only. Bummer.
You are assuming the facebook.com page. He was talking about one of their apps.
Re: desktop search. What. I see "lay users" in meetings with projectors/TVs using the search function in the windows menu to find documents all the time! My org is named something like XQWK, so the files they want to show have the letters XQWK. It's pretty natural to them.
I’d launch my startup in the UK after Brexit because...?
But if somebody writes in Objective C, the C parts don't make it C.
The reset parent posted does better job of explaining what it does than this micro reset. Which is something the author advocates.

I agree with him that you do not need to use rules that do not apply on elements you don't use.

However, the multi cascade can be handled by a css preprocessor.
"Why would immigrants have a lower IQ than native spaniards?"

The commenter should not be down voted.

Different ethnic groups have measurably different IQ's.

Ethnicity represents genes, but also a myriad of other behaviours, attitudes, perspectives: all of the 'possible differentiators' mentioned in the article could easily be accounted for simply by ethnicity. Westerners more likely to play video games, some other group more or less likely to sleep, yet another group may or not value reading or eduction. In some groups women don't play any sports, maybe the lack of activity causes differences.

Most immigrants to Spain come from poor countries with low levels of education and generally lower IQs.

Though it's a really uncomfortable bit of reality, and we don't want to provide cover for bold racism - the position that 'immigrants might be lowering (or improving, even) the IQ results' is a reasonable hypothesis on the face of it.
They try not to, but trying isn't the same thing as succeeding. IQ tests have documented cultural biases, and we know that you can study and prepare for IQ tests to improve your score.
This concrete can trap CO2 emissions forever
A real startup visa gives you a pathway to permanent residence. No one wants to start a company and worry that they will have to leave everything there after 3 years if something does or does not happen.
One is a subset of the other. You could also call these ones "advice dog variants" or "unfunny reddit cancer".
No matter what you include, someone always comes and says this broad useless generalization. What of this looks like it should be standard? https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*opTXAh1ohEAVpBM4W...
Luckily there are fairly simple polyfills that can be used for that (including using babel's preset-env system to configure it based on browser support!)
Sounds more like an urban legend

"Isn’t there an old tale about the Arab who bought a car from [Israeli, Crusader, Imperialist, American Satan, etc.] and when it ran out of gas, he abandoned it as broken and sold it back to the seller, who repeated the trick with the next Sheik? So many nasty stereotypes in that one" http://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/so-whats-your-favorite-a...
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But it's posted in the pop-physics category. It doesn't seem inappropriate as a popular science article.
I know what you mean but that actually seemed to be some sort of remote terminal rather than dos.
That's the whole point of Michael Crichton's rant in "Aliens caused global warming" [1]

[1] https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publication...
There is already a nim react package. There is also the web framework karax you could use instead. Zero docs for that though
Many of the most successful organisms are bacteria that grow it incredibly High rates and mutate and evolve quickly
Ah, yes, I suppose the Democrats would gain Senators but lose Electoral College votes.
Ecosystems are limited by the availability of water, not sunlight. Also there are more "habitable" places in the universe which are underground oceans (the default condition outside the frost line) as opposed to a tiny fraction of rock worlds which have to parametrically fine tuned to have water -- ex. there are 10-20 worlds that have underground oceans in our own solar system.

Why would a spacefaring civilization care about dry worlds inside the frost line? The most absurd thing about "Battle: Los Angeles" is not that aliens would come to Los Angeles (as opposed to Detroit) to steal water, but that they would come to a planet which has a thin layer on the surface as opposed to being just a run-of-the-mill dwarf planet or asteroid or comet or whatever you call it that is closer to 50% water.

If civilizations of the dark had deuterium fusion they might see very little reason to mess around with the puny resources to be found close to a star. It's entirely plausible that a generation "starship" could live off the land and hop from comet to comet to the next star in 10,000 years but probably the crew would lose interest long before the first millenium.
You mean the original author doesn't need more? I'm all for minimalism, but my minimalism doesn't necessary mean everyone's minimalism.

And while the readme mentions you might not need it, or you might need to add to it, IMHO if it's not something that meaningfully solves the problem for a majority of users, and if it's trivially small then it probably isn't that useful.
Data from half a million people show that natural selection has not stopped
> "pretty open" "as long as you sign an NDA" is borderline oxymoronic.
> "enterprise focused" speaks for itself.

GAE is a business and has a niche. Perhaps they'd really be dead if they didn't focus on a set of paying customers. NDAs are the norm for enterprise and are reasonable given that they want to maintain their niche.

It's less reasonable for me to comment on their development/deployment methodology since I don't work at Google, but multiple quarters of work doesn't seem unusual for getting products like these deployed across multiple global data centers and achieve the kind of reliability required by these customers.
I've been looking into teaching a programming class to kids in Juvinile detention, who are likely starting at ground zero. I feel like this is a great first lesson to precede what I've prepared! I don't think I've ever seen a cleaner explanation of variables and static typing.
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Netflix is probably at the extreme end. Remember: the same codecs are used to compress the videos your cell phone takes.
It's seen as a relatively easy way to make money (if you make it work, hard to get good traffic without a community, etc).

It's a web page with a form and they charge from $99 to $399 per submission.
I think you (and some others) are being dismissive of a good-faith attempt to formalize thinking of a problem with many unknowns. I can't access the paper itself, but commenter carry_bit posted a link to the slides, and the conclusion slide says:

The Fermi question is not a paradox: it just looks like
one if one is overconfident in how well we know the
Drake equation parameters.

• Doing a distribution model shows that even existing
literature allows for a substantial probability of very
little life, and a more cautious prior gives a significant
probability for rare life.

• The Fermi observation makes the most uncertain
priors move strongly, reinforcing the rare life guess
and an early great filter.

• Getting even a little bit more information can update
our belief state a lot!

I think their arguments deserve more consideration than what they are getting in this thread.
You're probably right about that. Although I can point to one very specific way the olden days were better: a Google search used to turn up lots of forum posts, which are often the most useful results on a given topic. These days I almost never see forum posts of any kind turned up a search results (except stack overflow, thankfully). I'm not sure what caused the change but I find useful information is much more likely to be buried by low-information wikihow-type results and corporate landing pages.
My recommendation is to read, read, read and build out the models yourself in the language or application of your choice (Python is pretty easy, Excel is even easier to start with).
Start by drawing the simplest payoff diagrams you can, then layer various additional positions to build up strategies until you can recall the payoffs of your combined position with your eyes closed.
There are plenty of options models available online in various formats, but by taking the time to build it yourself you will have a much deeper understanding of the structure of the positions and you will be able to extend the model to fit your needs as you move beyond simple strategy payoffs.

Source: I was a TA for a graduate finance class for 3 years
Imagine a two-dimensional grid of squares, where all the squares are randomly chosen to be either black or white. Imagine that somewhere in this grid there's the appearance of a smiley in a 12x12 rectangle. How would this smiley compute if it's alone in the grid, and how close the nearest other smiley can be expected to be?
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You still care, since at some point the cost of the extra encoder-hours used is going to outpace the bandwidth savings. I'm guessing she mentally assumed 'at no bandwidth savings, how much margin do we have?', since the amount saved wasn't ever quantified.
Apple quietly banned developers from selling and sharing users’ contacts
Decisions aren't assessed by page count. The comment I was responding to shows that the decision was based on an incomplete understanding of the complaint.
Parts of California are reliably red. If you split them into their own state, their Senators, Representatives, and electoral votes would likely go red.
$YOLO
No, Slav Macedonia was acceptable to us. But not to the Albanians, and we changed our constitution in 2001 to allow them to veto this kind of things (under strong US/NATO pressure).
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dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17295725
I'm confused as to the popularity of Robinhood and others, do people really think they can beat the market? It's just gambling at this point, not investing.
> It just never got enough traction to really find its place in the ecosystem.

Probably a bigger factor is that Nim doesn't have a well-known organisation such as Google/Mozilla behind it.
yup! sorry for the confusion.

i'd also like to add that anybody who starts on a raspberry pi running linux will benefit from bootstrapped development. re-compiling the (linux!) kernel directly on the device is so much easier than setting up a cross-compile toolchain for C. eventually you'll want to have experience with cross compiling, but when you're first getting started it's a painful hurdle to overcome.

cross-compiling in rust is actually getting pretty easy, though, so that's cool.
Great value for money! Great fun for a family game night :D
I would love to see a search engine that only returns websites that have no JavaScript present (or some other artificial way of excluding major, "modern" websites).
Google manipulates its results in a variety of ways. The end result is that if you and your networked peers aren't already searching for things related to Dragonfly BSD, then you're less likely to find it, because Google will be 'helpfully' biasing your search towards other stuff.
There has been talk of splitting Texas into 5 states. Florida has had a South Florida split talks in the past.

New York City would be interesting because it seems like a split would really need to cross state lines which would make it really, really difficult.
So a cookie only knows the website that referred me?

So if I copy paste the website in the address bar, they dont learn anything about my last browsing habit?
https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/8gsx36/i_used_n...

The developer has since changed the name from Samba to Battlecry....
Also as a Native Californian - I question the logic of any proposal that splits the LA area into two states. Orange County is an integral part of the Los Angeles region.

If they were just talking about splitting in to two states - Northern California, and Southern California it might be more viable, as there are distinct cultural lines in the state to be drawn - but three states makes no sense to me, especially with the boundaries drawn as they are.
> Can you explain why PHP developers are so uniquely unable to accept honest criticism of their language? Like, whence all the butthurt, bro?

I’m not a PHP developer. Nice try to deflect though! You obvious have an agenda you are trying to push at all costs and don’t want to learn, so have a great day!
I've seen that called "type deduction" to distinguish it from "type inference". It's a much simpler feature. Arguably it's more of a convenience, whereas "type inference" tends to have real effects on the idiomatic way to design solutions in the language. A nice one though; I wouldn't care to go back to a language where I'm double-specifying types all the time like that.
It's a money printing machine in the sense they printed 100s of millions of tethers whenever they wanted. Problem is no one will give you $1 for a tether (except a very thin market on Kraken). Instead, they used the tethers to buy bitcoin and pump the price, then cashed out their bitcoin to fiat in over-the-counter deals.
Check the amount of sleep they get!
I dunno, I kind of doubt that Eric Drexler is clueless or malicious. Maybe if you read the paper and understood their approach you'd have less of a knee-jerk reaction. They are arguing (as pointed out in comments elsewhere) that the math on probabilities should be using distributions, and this is what they do, and they go on to show that the resulting probabilities are far, far lower than the simplistic Drake equation would suggest.
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Aye, it's not like our total tax rates are too far off from Western European economies as well. We just spend billions/trillions on other things
Maybe someone can comment, but I can't understand the value of this.

The meat of this proposal is the specification of the envelope. But it consists largely of things you would have to decide how to map to your application domain. Since there's no reason different apps would/could map these things the same way, there's no opportunity for interop created here.

I guess it ends up as an idea or example of how you might express a generic message in JSON. So that's of some use.
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Ask HN: Non-software people in the Bay Area, what's your plan?
What's your plan for major life goals like buying a house, good schooling for kids, retirement, etc?

In my own case I'm in an okay if tenuous spot right now. I make decent money if less than a FAANG new grad but I've also got unique low housing cost. However there is risk that both will come to an end within a few years. So, I'm hoarding cash with considerable uncertainty about the future. It's stressful and poor to compare, but I've got less job security and chances for side projects than a software engineer, while competing for the same resources.

My plan is to wait for the next recession and then assess whether it's better to dig in or ship off to the boonies. A lot will depend on how my investments did and whether I have side income, which ultimately are my only escape options.
As a EU Citizen, whose grandfather fought for the freedoms in WWII alongside British pilots, those freedoms, including Schengen area freedom of movement that UK never bother to adopt, are being thrown away and they dare ask people to apply for a visa now?
Good luck with that.
Do people take the 'fake news' claims seriously? Even here in HN?
> The likely fraudulent business model would be printing USDT that aren't backed by USD, purchasing cryptocurrencies with it, and then pumping up the value of that cryptocurrency to realize gains.

If Tether prints, say, $100M USDT, and buys Bitcoin with it, they'll move the market up. But then when they cash out their gains, they'll move the market down.

It's still a profitable business model, because they can get ~100M (minus market impact costs) for basically nothing, but the money isn't from manipulating the market, it's from printing $100M USDT from nothing.
IMHO there are a lot of factors for this link and concluding negative dysgenic scenarios is probably hasty. It may not necessarily be "all bad", and it may not necessarily directly relate to intelligence per se.

Speculative: Infant mortality, for instance, is not much of a concern anymore in developed economies. Knowledge in the mean time is a far more valuable commodity than ever. In such an economy, it makes more sense to concentrate parenting resources (which include far more schooling than in earlier times) on a smaller set of offspring. I'm not sure this is necessarily a bad thing personally.

Also speculative: For women, the conflict between career and parenting is indeed very significant, especially in countries which do not seem to value work-life balance very much (inflexible work schedules, lack of priority on child services, etc.) and/or still have a lot of the traditional parenting roles in place. Motherhood has shown to be a significant explanation of the gender pay gap for instance. I would not be surprised if the negative penalty for fertility for intelligent women is largely due to this phenomenon as well. It would be interesting to see if this "intelligence penalty" for women does indeed lessen in countries with more family friendly employment policies.
Does anyone else find this question totally uninteresting? There's no discussion to be had about this paradox that doesn't devolve into an N=1 predictive model.
That's true. Musk, like all people, have their positives and negatives.

But he's always been this way. The question is why the sudden change in sentiment?

And as bad as elon musk is, the journalists are much worse. I'd rather have a world full of elon musks than journalists.

> Musk is notoriously anti-union

To be fair, no entrepreneur in a fledgling/new industry is pro-union. Actually, no entrepreneur is pro-union.

> continually over-promises then under-delivers

That's shareholders' concern, not ours.

> has continually treated his wives as trophies

Welcome to humanity. Are you going to blame his wives who loved to be trophies? Seems like personal business between consenting adults.

> and has designed a worse subway just because he doesn't want his knees to touch some peasant's knees.

As opposed to the elitist journos who love to slum it with the peasants right?

> He's just another shitty billionaire

Who the media loved. For nearly 20 years, the media wasn't too concerned with his anti-union stance, his trophy wives, his failure to delivery on his promises, etc.
How did you use this data? Well, except for bot detection that is. I can't think of a particularly useful way this data can be utilised.
I'm not proclaiming anything in particular about your content, but you don't seem to be able to fund anyone willing to pay for it.