skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intelligence could be different from our understanding and projection of it.

I can see the highly structured and mutually influenced movement of galaxies, star systems etc as a type of intelligence.

The processes in stars. Are they completely random? The time we’ve spent observing the Sun is insurmountable short in Star time.

The ecosystems on Earth with their never stopping intertwined flow of signals and influences. Wheat, corn and soy using humans to take over vast territories.

Languages and thought patterns and their disease-like activity often infecting and wiping out huge ecosystems (“let’s kill all the bison!”) and large parts of their host population (genocides, world wars, racism).

I am not religious and am certain that the theory of evolution is sound. There’s no bearded guy in the sky tweaking our genome and berrying dinosaurs to test our faith.

When I look at the self organizing nature of phenomena, my pattern recognizing brain sees patterns and I can’t but think that the regular definition of intelligence might be too small and might benefit by being scaled up.

How is our intelligence different from the ability of species’ genomes to adapt to environments over long periods of time?
Is it Frey as in Glenn? The H is O!
Nobody wants to do laundry. A premium laundry product already exists - having somebody else do it. I think that competition is tough. Plus, having to separate my laundry and my girlfriend's laundry to have different scents means double the laundry loads.
end of statement. nothing more to be said. no exceptions or reasonable argument to the contrary.
I'd guess many users also value battery life over screen resolution. Even when there is an option, I always take the option for 1080p on my laptops for this reason. I find 1080p to be more than good enough on a 14" screen at normal usage distances.
How do you know this is not a simulation?
Rule of thumb in these cases is to use natural vanilla for items that do not get baked. Such as ice creams or cake frosting. And use the artificial vanilla for baked goods. And even then I lean towards the natural stuff when I bake. Real vanilla has a complexity and depth to it, like a fine cigar, you can sit and savor it.
I think here's some untapped potential. Selling detergents to people who would like to actually know all the "technical details" related to them.
> Their leadership is mainly white and mainly men.

Wow. Racist much?
If any of your products can help me get rid of the yellow ring around my shirt collars, you have a customer (I hate throwing away $100 shirts after only a year of 2-3 times a month wearing).
Title is missing the word “currency”
Yes, I’ve said the same as well. But to pretend like you don’t know why it’s significant that the victim was on meth is ridiculous. You have to be pretty fucked up to just walk in front of a car that even a blind person would know is coming
I don't think Hanlon's Razor is an acceptable excuse above a certain pay-grade.
Early YC - Reddit, Dropbox, Twitch - products and services tackling massive meaningful technology things.

YC now - Here's some expensive detergent for a niche audience.

I feel like YC is losing its mojo.
‘We don’t really need phones’: the French school that banned mobiles
I never claimed that Youtube is any better in this regard. Only that the same risk exists, even if the chance of it happening is different for each platform.
I had a somewhat difficult childhood and by about 12 was plotting a way to get the fuck out of my neighborhood. Self taught programmer/business guy who did well. Wife is far smarter and better educated but not interested in making money. She came from a good family and reckons my drive came from the background.
> where it gets pushed above the fold

Isn't this where the Slack search comes in? I never had the problem that I couldn't find something that I was looking for. Usually I just need one distinct word that I know was used in the conversation and a from:person filter. A feed has the same problem that it'll get too big and things will get pushed above the fold.
Worth noting that these days, Will Cooke is a host on the Late Night Linux podcast - so if this interests anyone, they might be interested to listen in as he will surely talk about it on an upcoming episode.
The "newscasters" are Big Chuck and Little John which were a local TV comedy duo (similar to Almost Live! in Seattle). Its probably one of the more Cleveland things to happen in Cleveland though.

Random aside - local shows like that are pretty sorely missing now.
A fair few open source projects mentioned there. If they can be keeping things open while truly helping the existing IRC projects then that would be cool.
You are mostly right, "ANY" was a poor choice of words (not to mention my unnecessary all-caps emphasis), and of course now I can't edit the post. Oops. I meant out of any of them that I consider using (I know I'm a heretic but I just can't get into fully keyboard-based editors like vim, emacs, etc).

But it does include other non-bloated apps that come close in speed, but don't have the feature set the way I want like TextWrangler, CotEditor, Geany, TextMate.

I think TL;DR - I am very picky about text editors, probably too picky.
Do you find Android better?

I think it may be that "affordances" are hard on small touch screens. I mean, the "affordance" is that you can touch it, that's about it.

Really, even on desktop, we know how to use it cause we've spent years learning how to use it. The first GUI's had _much_ simpler UX's with many fewer interaction modalities, cause it was hard enough to get people to learn those. (I remember classes on how to use a mouse -- it was not obvious). They got more complicated as generalized "society" learned to use the simple ones.
What a Russian Smile Means
Very true. I'd settle for a washer/dryer combo machine that actually works. (i.e. you don't have to transfer the clothes, it all happens automagically.)
This ^^ 100x.

If it wasn't for integrated circuits, the u.s. likely would not have won the race. And it's not just because I'm a chip guy.
To me, the coordination thing is the biggest unexpected benefit.

Sure, you can do coordination offline as an asynchronous thing. But making it a blocking part of the commit process just gives you so much higher confidence that it's going to actually happen.

Though really, you're even better off if, as much as possible, you do the coordination and communication before the code review. If you have agreement on basic approach before then, you can reduce the amount of last-minute stuff to minor style changes, fixing errors, and cleanup.

Code review, as a business process, tends to push things this direction. If you don't do reviews, you might skip coordination and communication. If you do reviews, you know it's happening at some point, and it only takes a few bad experiences of having to redo all your work to clue in that maybe those discussions (which you are now definitely having) should be started earlier.
Although technically correct, imitation is a deceptive term. Vanillin is the key flavoring agent found in vanilla. Synthesizing vanillin is not creating an imitation, it is synthesizing the exact same compound that exists in nature.

There is literally no point in growing vanilla to extract vanillin if vanillin can be synthesized artificially for much cheaper. Though if you're going for compounds other than vanillin that exist within the vanilla plant itself... that's a different story.
I've had a similar problem in the past. The things I've found to be very helpful are:

1) Don't look at the PR diff as a whole, look at individual commits, and judge each one, then read the PR diff.

2) If the commits are too big to keep in your head, don't make individual sense, etc., ask your coworker to rewrite their history until you can do 1)

2b) If the individual commits make sense, but the PR still is too big to comprehend, this PR should probably be split into multiple smaller PRs which can be reviewed, approved, and released individually (or at least in sequence).

3) If you lack still lack enough context to make a good review, ask your coworker to walk you through the commit, and just explain out loud why they're making the changes they're making. Sometimes, a "rubber-duck code review" is enough. Even if it's not, any programmer can read and understand a single line of code at a time, and you can likely tell if that line of code is complex or elegant.

Plus, even if you don't know the full technical context of a proposed change, people are fairly good at picking up whether another person has an explanation that makes sense, or if they seem to be making it up as they go.

4) Spend the time and do the reviews, and become more familiar with that part of the code. It sounds like right now, that part of the code has a bus factor of 1.

5) Track time spent doing code reviews, and track bugs caught during code review. Code review has notable benefits for your team/company, so justify and sell that. You have fewer bugs & a better bus factor. When estimating your next sprint (or other unit of work), know that you'll spend X hours per week doing code review, and integrate that.
Man, rolling nationality + expat/immigrant around is exposing some interesting biases.

For some nationalities, expat sounds more natural, for some immigrant.
The British and French get to be expats even if they live in the US, the Germans only if they live outside the US. Canadians don't get to be expats or immigrants, they're just Canadians.

I wonder how broad or narrow these biases are; are these something I picked up from widespread American culture, or just personal linguistic biases?
> Not sure why you're getting downvotes

I am. Not contributing to the discussion by dismissing the topic.
Kubernetes the Habitat Way
This all seems like common sense, but the article articulated it very well.
At this very moment, there is a story on the front page about Twitter shutting down Smyte. One commenter writes:

"We had 20 minutes notice, and then everyone was kicked out of the Slack support channel and API responses simply died."

If someone says "they would never do that" you can discard it as wishful thinking.
Betterment slapped with $400,000 fine from Finra
This is exactly what I mean in terms of "faster". Which, for opening rather small (HTML, CSS, JS) web files, and lots of them, makes a significant difference in perception of speed.
Research team uncovers lost images from the 19th century
> Neuromancer, William Gibson’s first novel, was published in 1984. It helped to establish the cyberpunk genre of science fiction

Cyberpunk dates at least a decade before Neuromancer -- Brunner's Shockwave Rider form 1974 comes to mind (and is a pretty interesting and strangely timely read, given that it is almost 50 years old).
I too am a man, white and aged 26-35. For too long my opinions and demands have not been heard by marketers. Finally I can influence the scent of laundry detergent and have freshly cleaned clothing that smells of fox hunting, barber shops and the peatiest of scotches.
The author focuses on several extraordinarily successful companies, and it may be true that a startup with one dominant founder is more likely to become an extraordinarily successful company than a startup with an even split.

But of course, the vast, vast majority of startups do not become extraordinarily successful companies. Most fail, and of those that succeed, most are moderately-very successful.

I wonder what the data is around moderately successful companies. It is less important to me that I raise my chance of being extraordinarily successful from .0000001% to .0000002% (a doubling!) than that I raise my chance of being moderately successful from 20% to 30%.

It is possible that having an even split makes it more likely that you get to some level of success, even if it makes it less likely that you make it to the stratosphere.
I never open very large files, but this is interesting data nevertheless!
All of china relies on hand pollination.
We are always told by marketing types that what we perceive isn't real; instead, it's always something at least one level above that. Purely designed to manipulate an emotional response from the reader/viewer.

I can say for me it certainly does cause an emotional response, but not the one WeWork or London Trust Media are hoping for.
Hey there! We're not suggesting anything about masculinity or what defines a man. This is just about creating a great product for a segment of the population- we eventually want to branch out. But, for the current, fragrance is the #1 people reason purchase FREY. The fragrance is tailored towards men. No one suggests "fragile masculinity" when a men's cologne is created, and the idea is similar here. The fragrance from your laundry not only covers your clothing, but your sheets, your towels, and every other aspect of linen. Seems counter-intuitive to purchase a cologne you enjoy, but wash clothes with a fragrance that's not tailored to you as well! Just our thoughts (along with thousands of customers), but by no means are we suggesting anything about what defines masculinity =)
irc is lively enough, steady and just right. Thanks but no thanks
The H-1B visa: A golden ticket loses its luster
Reminds me of Lady Doritos or a random lifestyle brand on Shark Tank. I don’t see the need for it.

Did YC really back this?
Ever notice how bullies will always memorize these small personal details about a target and then when manipulating or gaslighting make sure to mention those facts?

E.g. Oh a new crisis "just came up". I need you to complete this big menial data entry task that I forgot about for a week right now (drop whatever you were working on before). Don't you want to make it to your daughter's concert tonight? Best get it done by EOD so you can be there for her. Next day: how's progress on that thing you were working on before?
This is great! Added to my media literacy guide:

https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer/commit/3d8091960e...
same person posting the same video every so often

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17083858
If they did not log call data, how did they charge it? Or did they only offer unlimited plans?
Sure - but it’s important to distinguish that that’s a mainstream view among a relatively small subset of conservatives, not a mainstream view among conservatives in general (though I agree that the split is probably different in Silicon Valley). Liberals support a broader range of solutions, some of which would create harmful economic distortions, but my impression is that few liberals would choose the status quo over the approach you’re suggesting.

To put it another way, if you’re a single-issue voter in favor of Pigouvian taxes on greenhouse gas emissions, you’re probably better off voting straight-line Democrat than straight-line Republican. If it were a question of whether to implement a Pigouvian tax or, say, subsidies for wind and solar, that would be a different story (and there’s a decent chance that I’d vote Republican).
That's fair, I will suspend judgement until further evidence appears, but the well of beneficial doubt is running low. I think a long past history of suspicious behavior is a good reason to update our assumptions.
MicroLED has been 5 years away for 5 years.

What improvements are needed to increase OLED sales? PPI is at the top of my list because it's a necessary condition for VR to go mainstream.
Joking or not, commenting like this will get your account banned. Could you please re-read the guidelines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Retina MacBook renders text at 4x while scaling other things 2x as I understand it. It looks great.
I love it. I think it's a great idea.

Your product looks amazing on the photos. I'm not an expert though, but I would put a male model right on front possibly doing laundry as it could be very attractive. Also, I can see women buy this stuff for there men as a gift (or mothers for their grown up boys leaving their parent's) - point being I would try advertisement channels which audience is female too. I guess you might have thought about that. Congratulation for the launch.
> wank poetic

Stealing that.

(Assuming you didn't actually mean "wax poetic"?)
Neuroscience and behavioral genetics in US criminal law: an empirical analysis
Maybe training monkeys would be an easier solution.
Is there a 'fruit of the poisoned tree' rule in international trade and tariffs? If the US puts tariffs on Chinese chips because they think they are derived from knowledge that was stolen from a US company, will they get chastised by the big international trade organizations?
How to cure an infection urinary tract naturally – Healthier Central
Bias in the brain, bias in society, and bias in the machine
Moreover, designing the actual type system is at least as hard as implementing the type checker. Coming up with a static type system that is flexible/ergonomic, expressive/powerful, sound, easy to use, and also a good match for mutable state and imperative code is really, really difficult, as demonstrated by C, C++, and Java.

A flexible/ergonomic dynamic type system is trivial in comparison. Soundness is handled at runtime when the exact value of each expression is known, and ease of use is almost a given.
That's definitely true.

We try to solve that in two ways:
1. We'll intelligently bubble up stuff that has a lot of discussion or activity, along with the context, even if that activity is happening in other apps. (Lots of comments on a google doc).

2. I personally think the asynchronous nature of a feed stops people from spamming irrelevant garbage. In my experience, project channels always devolve at points to jokes/references/and stuff that people may think twice about posting to a wiki or feed.
Maybe this can be solved some day by a display technology that is vector- instead of pixel-based.
The only difference in whether data is creepy or not lies in the answer to a single question: Did you willingly provide it? In other words, did you choose to give it to them?

I tell the concierge service what type of table I like at a restaurant, to put into their file on me, so I expect anyone there to know that.

I do not tell a Bumble date where I work, so I do not expect them to know that (even though they could Linkedin stalk me).

A lowball offer on a house I am selling could be viewed as insulting. But, if before the offer I let it slip that an ugly gas station was about to go up next door, then all of a sudden the lowball offer is not insulting anymore.
Nuclear arsenals are part of the military, and what campaigns do you think the US is losing? What materially have we actually lost?

Let's not conflate foreign policy and politics with military might. Things can go wrong from bad leadership regardless of what powers are at command, but those powers at the same time guarantee a certain level of safety and capability on behalf of the nation's interests. I don't see how you can deny that with any sense of reality.
I dunno, I think it’s an expression of the internet that’s better than the average.
Also, 30 - 40% of our customers are women. We're created for everyone, just tailored towards some =)
I think the issue is that people already learned how to avoid going crazy with email. A large part of that is reading it in batches and not getting any notification when messages arrive. Some other people are bothered by this and seem to forever seek a way to worm their way back into your foreground attention.

Slack conflates mentioning someone with notifying someone. Some of my coworkers use mentions like metadata. They think they are creating a better informatics resource by mentioning people by their Slack id instead of their name. They had no intention of it actually sending an immediate notification to interrupt anybody.

They see Slack more like some kind of wiki and not like a chat system. I see Slack as a chat system and an even more worthless wiki than all the other wikis everyone creates and then abandons due to editorial debt. Unfortunately, we don't get to join different Slack systems with entrance exams to filter out the wrong sort of user...
It's kind of a problem in that any supply problems have pretty massive effects on the price. A cyclone hit Madagascar in 2011 which significantly reduced the year's harvest, sending the prices skyrocketing [0]. Anecdotally, there was a time during 2016/2017 where my local stores couldn't even get vanilla pods.

[0] https://moneyweek.com/chart-of-the-week-vanilla-could-soon-b...
Wren looks interesting. It stands out by the lack of use of setjmp/longjmp for error handling. It's probably side effect of being able to return/suspend fiber from any call stack depth.
Thanks for the advice! Yes, we are actually looking into MaxCDN right now, been between CloudFlare or MaxCDN but settled on the latter. All the best!
people do get charged if they run down pedestrians due to negligence.
If you think that is an appropriate limit.
>If Uber had directed a five year old to drive the SUV, with a back-up driver ready to take control, I think everyone would agree that qualifies as gross negligence notwithstanding the presence of the back-up driver.

This is a bad analogy. First, Uber's software is much better than a 5 year old. A 5 year old would have hit something well before a jaywalking pedestrian. Second, the backup driver was fully capable of stopping the vehicle, or navigating around the jaywalker. The person they hired is responsible for safe operation of the vehicle. They failed.
I'm interested to see how they manage to convince communities to use their IRC services over competitors like Discord when so many users see Discord as easy, free, trendy, etc. Of course services liks Slack, Telegram, Skype, etc, are also potential competitors in this ecosystem.

>IRC Gaming (We're going to have literally hundreds of thousands in cash prizes!)
I suppose literally paying users money is one way, but it doesn't sound very sustainable.
Some of their other projects like "IRC Ventures (VC/Incubation on IRC!)" are pretty hard to imagine the specifics about, but hopefully we'll see some interesting positive actions sooner or later to show us what they really intend to do.
> So what happens when a company is acting on behalf of/as an extension of the government? And exactly how close can that relationship get?

FYI, the legal term you're looking for is "state actor". In case that helps with googling.
If only he hadn’t copyrighted/patented it, we might be using it.

I find it interesting how frequently “just ok” software is picked up and reaches a critical mass just because it is open. There are many good software projects that won’t grow because of licensing because they are more useful with network effects.

I have lots of colleagues who use R for data analysis. It wasn’t that great in the beginning but was widely used because of openness. 5 years ago, SAS and IBM would describe how superior they were, but it kind of missed the point.

For most of my software uses, I just need good enough.
> I wouldn't give ourselves enough credit to think we can meaningfully tip the scales in that way

I would hope that would be the whole point of such a project! (To reduce hiring friction enough to be able to tip the scales, not actually tip them)

> what role would you be looking for?

Personally, my specialty is ops (fka sysadmin). I rarely see a startup truly needing a dedicated someone-like-me until well after they've hired all their early employees.
Why isn't there a package with one of everything? That's the only thing stopping me from going all in and just making the order.
I think by empirically you mean intuitively or logically?

Is there some large body of measurements you are referring to?
I just finished the audiobook of Neuromancer a week ago, and I didn't really enjoy it. I'm not sure if I would have enjoyed it more if I'd read it. I love other what I think of as similar books like Snowcrash and Diamond Age. I had high hopes for Neuromancer, which maybe that was part of it, but I just didn't enjoy it. It kind of turned into a slog and I nearly gave up at around 90%, but just pushed through because I was so close.

Is it just me?
Using MAC addresses to track physical presence
comply with and enforce